IP Spoofing and Adding Multiple IP Addresses To Host
IP Spoofing and Adding Multiple IP Addresses To Host
IP
Spoofing:
When you
run a scenario, the Vusers on each host machine use the host’s IP address. You
can define multiple IP addresses on a host machine to emulate a real- life
situation where users sit on different machines.
About
Multiple IP Addresses:
Application
servers and network devices use IP addresses to identify clients. The
application server often caches information about clients coming from the same
machine. Network routers try to cache source and destination information to
optimize throughput. If many users have the same IP address, both the server
and the routers try to optimize. Since Vusers on the same host machine have the
same IP address, server and router optimizations do not reflect real- life
situations. (real life Network Traffic)
LoadRunner’s
multiple IP address feature enables Vusers running on a single machine to be
identified by many IP addresses. The server and router recognize the Vusers as
coming from different machines and as a result, the testing environment is more
realistic.
Note:
1.
IP Spoofing runs on LG. Each LG will be allotted Bulk IPs. Ex 10
IPs.if we are running 10 users on that LG, each vuser will pick one unique IP.
All the IP added should be valid and should be recognized by the network
routers and firewalls.
2.
NIC card should be sufficient strong enough to support the data
what flows across the number of Vusers and IP spoofed for the LG.
3.
DHCP should be disabled on LG Box and IP addresses should be
static IP addresses.
Adding IP
Addresses to a Host (Load Generator):
LoadRunner
includes an IP Wizard program that you run on each host machine to create
multiple IP addresses. You add new IP addresses to a machine once and use the
addresses for all scenarios.
The
following procedure summarizes how to add new IP addresses to a host:
1 Run the
IP Wizard on the host machine to add a specified number of IP addresses.
2 Re- Start
the host machine.
3 Update
the server’s routing table with the new addresses, if necessary.
4 Enable
this feature from the Controller.
Using the
IP Wizard:
The IP
Wizard resides on each host machine where load generator software is installed.
We need to run this process one time to add and register new IP addresses. The
new addresses should be in the range of addresses defined by the Internet
Assignment Numbers Authority. They are for internal use only for the project.
To add
new IP addresses to a host machine:
1. Invoke the IP Wizard from the LoadRunner program
tools.
2. If you
have an existing file with IP address settings, select Load settings
from file and choose the file.
3. If you
are defining new settings, select New Settings.
4. Click Next to
proceed to the next step. If you have more than one network card, choose the
card to use for IP addresses and click Next .The optional Web
server IP address step enables the IP Wizard to check the server’s routing
table to see if it requires updating after the new IP addresses are added to
the host. (
Note: Using the Load Generator with Multiple NIC card is not
recommended for Load Generator Purpose in case test involves measuring the
network traffic or it is a large test.
5. To check
the server’s routing table directly after adding the addresses, enter the
server IP address.
6. Click Next to see a list of the machine’s IP
addresses. Click Add to define the range of addresses.
IP
addresses include two components, a netid and hostid. The sub mask determines
where the netid portion of the address stops and where the hostid begins.
7. Select a
class that represents the correct sub mask for the machine’s IP addresses.
8. Specify
the number of addresses to create. Select Verify that new IP addresses
are not already in use to instruct the IP Wizard to check the new
addresses. If some addresses are in use, the IP Wizard will only add the
addresses not in use.
9. Click OK to
proceed.
After the
IP Wizard creates the new addresses, the summary dialog box lists all of the IP
addresses.
10.Click Finish to
exit the IP Wizard. The IP Wizard Summary dialog box is
displayed.
11. Enable IP spoofing from controller before connecting to load generators
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