On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 15:17 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > My specific application is a testing tool that emulates 1000+ unique NFS > clients, > primarily for testing & loading NFS servers. > I put each client on a mac-vlan and put them all on the same subnet so > that I don't > need any routers between my box and the nfs server. (We can also put > them on different subnets and use different routers, and the specific > source-ip > also helps there...) > > I use routing tricks to enforce that a particular source-IP uses a > specific routing > table, and that ties pkts to a specific mac-vlan interface. The mount > bindaddr > option then binds a mount to a specific local IP and thus to a specific > mac-vlan. > > This shows 1000+ mounts on my test box, and the nfs server sees 1000 > unique clients (all with different MACs, IPS, etc). Any reason why you couldn't multi-home the server too, and use the destination IP address to control the route on the clients? Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
