> Henning has something in saying that most of the tools aren't great, > in the end all benchmarks are artificial in some measure. Replaying > traffic is equally artificial as it's only indicative of the traffic > you recorded - which is likely to be biased towards whatever was > happening at the time on your LAN.
henning is trying to make the network layer and pf -- on balance -- manage all types of traffic faster. therefore it does not matter if the traffic is artificial or not, as long as it isn't skewed towards unrealistic. he's not working in the same area at all as you guys trying to make your web servers serve a few more pages.
