Network stress testing

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

Would anyone have a recommendation for doing a stress
test of a network? I've got a big show coming up and
I'd like to set up re-produceable test procedures so
I know how things respond under expected real life loads.

I'm sure I've run across discussions of such tools
but I can't remember any names.

In particular I'd like to be able to hit a web server
(and the local dns) with n requests/min to ensure
it works, or if not to identify the weak spots.

I'm doing googles in parallel with this query as
I'm rather under stress testing myself at the 
moment, with a fixed deadline...

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