simulating dhcp requests?

[Ricardo Stella]

Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> Is there a way to use dhclient to simulate a bunch of dhcp requests?
> I'm trying to do a load test on our dhcp configuration.  But, dhclient
> want to bind to an existing interface.  The other way I've briefly
> considered is to generate the dhcprequest through the existing
> interface and using linux netfilter to spoof random MAC addresses.
> Thanks for any tips.
>
>   

You could try to script around using dhcping
(http://www.mavetju.org/unix/dhcping-man.php), feeding it random MAC
addresses...

My .02...


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