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I am working on Firewall performance testing. I need to know about pfSense Enterprise Firewall performance. How many maximum concurrent users and maximum sessions does it supports?

I have used JMeter for concurrent user but could not find any other tool to measure maximum sessions of a firewall, or both maximum concurrent users and maximum sessions of a firewall. Is there any tool to test the maximum concurrent users and maximum sessions of a firewall?

Sabeeha Tanveer
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Depending on what type of traffic do you want to simulate the number of sessions may be equal or higher than the number of threads.

In the majority of cases number of users == number of sessions.

For the HTTP protocol if you enabled embedded resources downloading for the requests including the embedded resources the number of sessions will be 6x times higher. It can be visualized using i.e. Server Hits Per Second chart (can be installed using JMeter Plugins Manager)

Dmitri T
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  • Sessions refer to as number of sessions a user can create. I want to find out max. concurrent users and max. sessions of "Netgate 7100 1U" firewall can support. – Sabeeha Tanveer Sep 15 '21 at 06:31