Hello Fred -
The first thing to realise is that "radpwtst" is not a high-performance radius load generator, however what we do is this: set up Radiator host run "radiusd -trace -1 -config_file ....." in a terminal window (this will give the number of requests per second) run multiple copies of radpwtst on multiple other machines (*not* the Radiator host) The mistake that many people make is trying to run radpwtst on the same machine as Radiator which will skew the results significantly. Otherwise, you can do a google search on radius test generators. regards Hugh On Wed, 29 May 2002 20:37, Fred Albrecht wrote: > Hi > > I've been wondering how one goes about really stressing a Radiator > installation to see what it can do. I've tried using radpwtst to flood the > service but on a config that simply allows everyone in I get about 17 - 33 > milliseconds per access request, while only sending only accounting gives > 93 miliseconds per request. > > A uname -a returns : > SunOS wol-aaa1 5.7 Generic_106541-12 sun4u sparc > SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine, > > 1 Gig of memory installed., 1 CPU > > CPU drops right down to 0 % free when running the test. > > Running radpwtst on just auth gives > > Is this good or bad, and how can I increase these results? > > Also, are there any good tools to really flood a Radius server with access > requests? > > > The allow all config looks like this: > ---------------------------------------------------------- > # > # radius.cfg > # > > # Set this to the directory where your logfile and details file are to go > LogDir /opt/LOGS/radius/ > > # Set this to the database directory. It should contain these files: > # users The user database > # dictionary The dictionary for your NAS > DbDir /usr/local/etc/raddb > > AuthPort 3645 > AcctPort 3646 > Trace 3 > > LogFile %L/Radiator.log > > #PasswordLogFileName %L/password.log > > # Clients > <ClientListSQL> > DBSource dbi:Oracle:PHEONIX > DBUsername pheonix > DBAuth unclefred > </ClientListSQL> > > > > <Handler DEFAULT> > <AuthBy FILE> > #The filename defaults to %D/users > </AuthBy> > </Handler> > > ------------------------- > > And the users file looks like this: > ------------ > DEFAULT > Service-Type = Framed-User, > Framed-Protocol = PPP > ----------- > > Thanx > > fred > > > === > Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ > Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with > 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message. -- Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X. - Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible, flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence. === Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.