Thanks Roy, will give it a go. infact there is no need for any IT phone calls, I am the owner of this network
Very simple [bunch of clients]----[box under test]----[bunch of servers] Now i should be able to hammer them ;) Alan "Roy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Alan Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks Roy >> >> Any ideas how to code this child process stuff, as I said I am newbie and >> not from a coding background > > The easiest thing would be to use os.system(). If you wanted to spawn 10 > child processes, you could do: > > import os > for i in range(10): > os.system ("./child.py &") > > and then have child.py be a script that creates 1000 TCP connections. > > Keep in mind that one man's stress test is another man's denial of service > attack. If there are any firewalls between you and your target, they may > restrict the number of connections you get to make (or the rate at which > they're created). You may also get a polite phone call from your local IT > people asking enquiring about your activities. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list