[httperf] More than one IP

[Martin Arlitt]

Rivalino

the current version of httperf does not allow you to specify the source IP
address.  however, it should be relatively straightforward to add this
capability.  I tested something similar at one point.  I used ip aliasing
(on linux) to have the client's NIC  support multiple ip addresses, then
modified httperf to either loop through a set of source ip addresses on a
connection by connection basis, or a session by session basis.

Martin

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Rivalino Matias Jr. wrote:

> People,
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> I need use httperf with  one or more IPs which I will determine manually, like that:
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>         httperf -I eth0 ..... (there isn't -I option)
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> In this case, httperf will bind to eth0 IP.
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> Right now, just one IP is sufficient. However, the more advanced test cases will require more than one IP. In this case, I will have more than two IPs associated to my host and httperf needs know these alias, like:
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> httperf -I eth0:0 - eth0:100 ...  or something like that. Of course, I'm not considering the issues related to the distribution between connections per IPs, etc...
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> I read the httperf man pages but I didn't find anything near from that. Is it possible ? Anybody knows how to do that ?
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> Thank you in advance !
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> Rivalino.
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