Could anyone recommend a quick and dirty way in which to load test an OpenLDAP service to get an indication as to the potential capacity for the platform to handle bind requests?

I've used the python-ldap library to simulate other varieties of interactions successfully, but when it comes to binds, each interaction seems to generate a substantial amount of traffic behind the scenes, so suspect that *things* are happening that is artificially limiting the bind rate/s.

I've seen some links to people using JMeter to perform this sort of load testing, but thought there may be other (quicker to implement) tools also?

Thanks in advance,

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