[138846] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Simple Low Cost WAN Link Simulator Recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Sun Mar 20 18:21:43 2011
In-Reply-To: <4D82132D.6080107@digi-muse.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:20:58 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: Loopback <loopback@digi-muse.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Loopback <loopback@digi-muse.com> wrote:
> Need the ability to test Network Management and Provisioning applications
> over a variety of WAN link speeds from T1 equivalent up to 1GB speeds.
> =A0Seems to be quite a few offerings but I am looking for recommendations=
from
> actual users. =A0 Thanks in advance.
We've used FreeBSD + dummynet on a multi-NIC box in bridging mode
to do 'bump on the wire' WAN simulations involving packet loss, latency,
and unidirectional packet flow variances. Works wonderfully, and the price
is right.
Matt
