IPFire releases fireperf firewall testing tool
Original title: Fireperf: Open-source network testing tool for firewalls and routers
fireperf measures firewall connection handling rates like iperf3 but for stateful devices.
The IPFire project has released fireperf, a tool that opens connections at a fixed rate to test how firewalls and routers handle them. It logs handshake times, failures, and idle connections. Unlike iperf3 which focuses on bandwidth, fireperf simulates many short connections to stress stateful systems. Signed packages for several Linux distros are available.
- Measures connection creation rate and state management
- Logs timeouts, refusals, resource limits
- Supports multiple clients on one port
- Live graphs and JSON output
- Built as event-loop based alternative to iperf
From the original article
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The IPFire project has released fireperf, an open-source measurement tool that opens connections at a fixed rate and reports what the device in the middle did with each one. It is free software aimed at administrators, developers and testers who evaluate firewalls, routers and other systems that keep a state for every connection.
By Mirko Zorz · helpnetsecurity.com
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