smbtorture/netbench against w2k

[Simo Sorce]

Not tried but the problem is easy to find and we encountered it in our
auth code.
It seem that w2k has some sort of very dumb option active by default
that drops connection if it finds more than one from the same ip under
some cicumstances (mostly when auth is not yet finished and a new
connection starts from the same IP), I do not need to say this stupid
behaviour broke many natted networks.

I'm sure that if you dig into this list you will also find a patch from
microsoft about this problem.

Needles to say that netbench from a single interface use a single ip ...

Simo.

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 23:03, Peter Siering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I used smbtorture's netbench runs against Samba on Linux and Mac OS X to
> get a clue wich system performs better than the other. Now I've tried the
> same against a Windows 2000 Server, but had no success.
> 
> What happens: w2k seems to have some optimizations regarding client
> connections. If I raise the (emulated) client count in smbtorture's
> netbench w2k starts to refuse connections - that even happens with just a
> few clients (10 or so). It's even dropping an advice in its event log,
> that it could not handle every connection request. I've tried w2k server
> plain and with sp2 with no differences.
> 
> But: If I use a couple of instances of smbtorture on virtual interfaces
> (just tried up to ten both on test client and server) that does not happen
> (as long as the client count per interface stays low). The w2k server
> starts to serve dozens of (emulated) clients that way.
> 
> Did anybody else tried that?
> 
> Peter
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