Re: Which router to choose for port scanning

[Volker Tanger <vtlists () wyae de>]

Greetings!

On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:40:34 +0100
Tobias Glemser <tglemser () tele-consulting com> wrote:

> Has anyone experiences with DSL-Routers != Cisco and doing port scans? 
> != Cisco means pricing should be under ~300 EUR each.

How about using old (P2, with PCI bus network card) or small PCs (like eBox, about 100 EUR new) as Linux or *BSD boxen 
directly as DSL endpoints?  

This way you can parallelize stress testing even on the PC level. Question is what you want to stresstest to need such 
capacity. A recent PC or Laptop can generate about half a Gbit/s worth of test-traffic against a HTTP server (and serve 
as much e.g. with Apache 1.3 under Linux). But I've still got to see a 100Mbit/s DSL line, not to mention a Gbit/s 
line...

Bye

Volker

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