On 4/17/06, Brian McCallister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 17, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Garrett Rooney wrote: > > > I suspect that a significant problem with this sort of project will be > > lack of proper hardware for benchmarking purposes. From everything > > I've heard it's not all that hard to totally saturate the kind of > > networks you're likely to have sitting around your house with > > commodity hardware and no real effort. To really benchmark it's going > > to require more stuff than your average college student has lying > > around the house. > > That would be one of the advantages of it being with the ASF -- in > theory we can get access to some network gear which might be harder > for a student to lay hands on.
Perhaps, but AFAICT infra@ doesn't have this kind of thing lying around at the moment, so unless someone is going to step up with hardware people can use it's kind of a showstopper. -garrett
