Hi James, I ran into the same issue, the master and slaves need to be on the same sub-network. I wrote a blog post explaining my setup: http://vedovini.net/2009/08/jmeter-distributed-testing-with-amazon-ec2/
Claude Vedovini --- Software Consulting & Development +41 78 617 86 98 http://vedovini.net/ http://www.dita-op.org/ 2009/8/18 James McBryan <[email protected]>: > Hey JMeter Users, > > I am trying to use JMeter with this setup: > 1) Server on Amazon EC2 with its own static IP aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd > 2) Client on my local dev box behind a router with an IP address if > 192.168.0.10 > > To run the server I execute >>> ./bin/jmeter_server > > To run the client I type >>> ./bin/jmeter -n -t bin/testplan.jmx -R aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd > > When I run the test plan the server hangs and the tests never finish and the > results never populate. Looking at the jmeter-server.log I see Java > exceptions like this: > > 2009/08/17 20:49:25 INFO - jmeter.samplers.RemoteListenerWrapper: Test > Started on aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd > 2009/08/17 20:52:34 ERROR - jmeter.samplers.RemoteListenerWrapper: > testStarted(host) java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: > 192.168.0.10; nested exception is: > java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out > > And looking at nmap, my server is sending these every minute or so: > 22:35:36.106299 IP aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.42641 > 192.168.0.10.58349: S > 1916790738:1916790738(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 90441062 > 0,nop,wscale 7> > > I can understand why the client test doesn't work.. the remote server is > sending packets to the wronge place. I have looked through numerous mailing > posts and it seems like many other people have these problems however no one > really reports a succesful solution. I have concluded that JMeter just > won't work from clients with private IP addresses. Is this true? and if > not (hopefully not) what is the solution? > > Thanks, > James > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]

