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Re: WAN/LAN delay simulation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Tue Jul 1 04:19:41 1997

To: giza@adsmart.net
cc: nanog@merit.edu, neil@domino.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jun 1997 19:04:08 EDT."
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From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 09:04:16 +0100

On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 19:04:08 -0400 
 "Peter E. Giza" <giza@adsmart.net> wrote:

> netheads,
> 
> Sorry to change the current thread, but does anyone know of a piece
> of freeware that will simulate delays across a WAN/LAN connection?
> Basically something that would allow a dual-homed workstation act
> as a router that one can program to do nasty things to packets.  I
> am not looking for random packet generation, rather I want to test
> the effects of http traffic and the like over a slow and dirty link
> (no I don't have a link to one of the Boardwatch worst list #%^>).
> TIA
> 
ping -f ? Or if you have a BSD box ETINC do a bandwidth limiter that
works pretty well, look at www.ETINC.COM.

Cheers,
Neil.
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