Hi Tavish

> You should still be able to hack together a script with tools like
dhclient from busybox,

Small clarification. dhclient needs to run from outside the router. Like a
laptop/PC connected to the network. dhclient can be compiled & run on any
OS.

> create multiple virtual interfaces and get IPs for all of them with DHCP
using dhclient, once you get an IP use ab (it looks like you can tell ab to
bind to particular network address, which should make it connect from that
address using the -B local-address parameter) to download your file (easily
thousands of connections),

Question - someone else also suggested that the machine that is simulating
multiple network clients will need multiple interfaces - like one interface
per client. Is this a mandatory thing ? dhclient does not need multiple
interface to complete dhcp process but the http stack might.

Also - would not the system be limited by the number of interfaces my
machine could support. Theoretically, a linux machine can have 1024
interfaces but does anybody has practically tried creating (& eventually
using) multiple such interfaces on their laptop & see how many such
interfaces they could create.

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