Andrea Glorioso wrote:>
> >>>>> "er" == Eyal Rif <EyalR@webmap.com>
writes:
>
> er> Hi, Does anybody knows tools that can Simulate Wan conditions
> er> (Bandwidth change, dropped packets at random times etc ...) ?
>
> LANforge (www.candelatech.com) might provide some of the requested
> functionalities, although I didn''t look at it closely -
it''s not free
> software and so it doesn''t interest me too much.
>
> I remember the FreeBSD "pipe" subsystem, by Luigi Rizzo, having
the
> possibility to simulate delay/losses of packets inside each pipe (the
> packets could be fed to the various pipes via ipfw). I think that
> this could be a nice opensource project. :)
I''m off for vacation starting Wednesday and won''t have real
results
before then, but I''ve a project using LANForge that I''ll
report on when
I get back. I still don''t know all the idiosyncracies, but I have 3
grad students happily learning them as we speak.
I''ll report back.
Gerry
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