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From: mjr@clark.net (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.security.firewalls,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q]: Measuring performance
Date: 11 Feb 1996 10:03:11 -0500
Organization: V-ONE Corporation
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>I am currently doing a project on performance measurment of firewalls.

	So am I. Slowly. :)

>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...).

	Check http://www.v-one.com/pubs/perf
	I'm trying to establish a reasonable methodology for doing
some meaningful testing. There's also a (moderated) mailing list on
the topic on greatcircle.com - send mail to majordomo@greatcircle.com
saying "subscribe firewalls-performance" to join.

mjr.
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