Newbie: Keep TCP socket open

[Alan Wright]

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" <roy at panix.com> wrote in message 
news:roy-6BB9DC.08271421052008 at 70-1-84-166.area1.spcsdns.net...
> In article <iaidnR_ZuNB9YK7VnZ2dnUVZ8uednZ2d at pipex.net>,
> "Alan Wright" <alan.wright at volubill.com> 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.