fireperf, a new network testing tool from IPFire, measures how many connections a firewall accepts, refuses, or silently drops under load.

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. What fireperf does iperf3, the widely used bandwidth tester, measures how much data two computers can push between them. A firewall has …

fireperf, a new network testing tool from IPFire, measures how many connections a firewall accepts, refuses, or silently drops under load.

fireperf is a new open-source network performance measurement tool for those who work with firewalls, routers, and other systems.

fireperf is a new open-source network performance measurement tool for those who work with firewalls, routers, and other systems that maintain a state for each network connection.

fireperf is a new open-source network performance measurement tool for those who work with firewalls, routers, and other systems that maintain a state for each network connection.