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From: vaggelis@cs.sunysb.edu (Evan Nanos)
Newsgroups: comp.security.firewalls,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: [Q]: Measuring performance
Date: 10 Feb 1996 21:01:55 GMT
Organization: Stony Brook Computer Science
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Hi!

I am currently doing a project on performance measurment of firewalls.
My basic concern is "how far can we go with them", i.e what are the upper 
limits in terms of traffic passing thru a firewall gateway/router.
Is there any public domain software out there that could make my life
easier? (something that would possibly send different packets back and
forth and do some timing and/or count dropped packets etc...).
My setting consists of two small subnets running FreeBSD and a fw router 
in between.

Any help/ideas will be highly appreciated.

Evan Nanos
vaggelis@cs.sunysb.edu