[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 14 February 2001 10:49
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: echoping 4.1 released : a tool to test SSL servers
> >
> >
> >
> > Release 4.0 of echoping introduced SSL support but several
> > bugs lasted until
> > 4.1. It should now work fine.
> >
> > http://echoping.sourceforge.net/
> > ftp://ftp.internatif.org/pub/unix/echoping/
> >
> > echoping can be used to test the performance of a Web server
> > (to see what SSL
> > costs) or just to read the source code, since it seems people
> > on the list
> > always want sample source code :-)
> >
> > % echoping -C -v -h / www.modssl.org
> >
> > This is ./echoping, version 4.1.0.
> >
> > Trying to connect to internet address 129.132.7.171 (port
> > 443) to transmit 91
> > bytes...
> > Trying to send 256 bytes to internet address 129.132.7.171...
> > Connected...
> > SSL connection using DES-CBC3-MD5
> > Sent (91 bytes)...
> > 14914 bytes read from server.
> > Elapsed time: 2.508330 seconds
> >
> This is just the kind of thing I'm looking for for testing SSL acceleration
> cards. By testing on the actual server I can see the raw performance
> increase without having to factor in network latency.
Snag is you have to factor in the effects of session caching, which
means that a simple test like this may not give an indicative result.
Cheers,
Ben.
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