Load testing through a single gateway

[Menaga Gopal]

Hi all,

I need to load test a web application using jmeter.
I need to give a load of 1,00,000 users hitting the application simultaneously. I can give the load using Jmeter from different client systems, but all the clients hit the same network gateway.

I have a single network gateway to accomplish this. If I increase the load to just 10,000 users, the network hangs. The single gateway subnet seems to be a bottleneck. Is there any solution where i can reach my target using the single network gateway?

Thanks in advance.
Menaga.

[Lasse Koskela]

If the gateway can't handle 10,000 clients then it can't handle 100,000 clients unless you find some vendor specific configuration option to tweak on that gateway.

Do you have to go through a gateway? Could you get all of those computers (clients and servers) into the same network?