Re: port range for polymix3 test

From: Duane Wessels (wessels@measurement-factory.com)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 03:04:04 MDT


On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Jihong A. Kim wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a question about a proper port range for polymix 3 testing.
>
> on the website, http://www.measurement-factory.com/docs/FreeBSD, it says
> the following line.
>
> ------------------
> % sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.last
> net.inet.ip.portrange.last : 40000
> ------------------
>
> When I run my polymix client, I run with an option '--ports 3000:30000'.
> (this was for testing with 550 req/sec).
>
> Is the above option likely to cause problem for my testing? What is the
> default ports setting if the 'ports' option is not set?
>
> Do you think I should run the test with '--ports 3000:40000' instead?

Either one should be fine. We had no problems with 30000 as the upper
limit. We just thought it wouldn't hurt to use a few more, so
the new document says 40,000.



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