First of all tcpflood is a testing tool of the rsyslog testbench which is able to send a lot of messages via tcp. This tool is included in the local rsyslog folder in ‘tests’. Before you can use tcpflood you have to build it first. Just switch in the mentioned folder and type make tcpflood […]
How to build the testing tools?
This article has been tested with rsyslog 5.7.1 on Fedora 13. It is part of the article “How to use rate limiting?” Go back to First try to test rate limiting (fail) When building a configuration for rsyslog, you will sometimes stumble upon the question, if your setup really works. To prove this in your […]