[10458] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WAN/LAN delay simulation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Wed Jul 2 18:31:33 1997
To: giza@adsmart.net
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jun 1997 19:04:08 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 18:16:31 -0400
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@brookfield.ans.net>
In message <33B83B68.2DF@adsmart.net>, "Peter E. Giza" writes:
> 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
>
> -pete
I think what you want is Dummynet for FreeBSD (that's really the
name). See:
http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/research.html
Source is available for FreeBSD 2.1 and FreeBSD 2.2
Curtis
