Performance?

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 10:30 -0400, Bret Schuhmacher wrote:
> Good, points, Brian.  I neglected to add the hardware factor.  My 
> question would have been better asked as, "are there any hardware 
> benchmarks?"

Ahhh.  Yes, that would have been a question that could have real
answers.

> and I could extrapolate what I need based on those results.

Hopefully.

> I guess the first step would be to create a  load test program that you 
> can configure to do N DHCPD requests (is this what dhclient does?). 

Yup.  Just create a null or next to null dhclient-script so that it
doesn't affect your local networking.  You would need to provide each
instance of dhclient with a different CID.  ISTR that you can tell a
dhclient (via dhclient.conf) it's CID, so in theory you should be able
to pound the dhcp server with only one or more client machines each with
enough clients to overload it.

> I 
> was planning on pulling the plug on the CMTS and causing all 8500 modems 
> to reregister, but a load test platform would be nice so I don't affect 
> 8500 users ;-).

Let us know your results.

b.