[p2p-hackers] Testing scalability on a P2P network

[Faried Nawaz]

On 10/31/05, Frank Moore <francis.moore at rawflow.com> wrote:
> Can anyone give me some pointers on scalability testing a P2P network?
> In theory if a P2P network works with N users, it should be possible to
> scale up to larger numbers i.e. N*10, N*100 etc....
> But is there any way of actually testing this and if so how have other
> people done it?

Will a simulation help?  There's p2psim -- http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/p2psim/