Re: [pfSense Support] Simultaneous client connection limit / Maximum state entries per host

2010-08-16 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Steve Haavik wrote: > > You could also try Nmap (http://nmap.org/), but I don't know if it's really > agressive enough to fill a state table. > nmap is among the best quick and easy ways to open a whole bunch of states. It's what I use most of the time when I'm j

Re: [pfSense Support] Simultaneous client connection limit / Maximum state entries per host

2010-08-16 Thread Steve Haavik
Well, I know the Ixia solution works but Chariot is a bit expensive (or it was when I looked.) I've used http://www.nominum.com/services/measurement_tools.php for testing DNS. I seem to remember seeing max concurrent requests before the server falls over from the load. I know I've seen somet

Re: [pfSense Support] Simultaneous client connection limit / Maximum state entries per host

2010-08-16 Thread David Burgess
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:28 AM, David Burgess wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Dominic wrote: > >> My query though is, how can I test that this is working correctly? Is >> there a tool that I can >> use to make connections from a single machine? Ideally something that >> provides the >

Re: [pfSense Support] Simultaneous client connection limit / Maximum state entries per host

2010-08-16 Thread David Burgess
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Dominic wrote: > My query though is, how can I test that this is working correctly? Is > there a tool that I can > use to make connections from a single machine? Ideally something that > provides the Would this do it? http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan

[pfSense Support] Simultaneous client connection limit / Maximum state entries per host

2010-08-16 Thread Dominic
Hi, I have had a few issues lately compliments of a few machines on our lan been infected with a worm which has caused the state table to be filled. I've increased this to give some more time to react to the problem. I would like to implement the Simultaneous client connection limit / Maximum sta