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Re: This network is too good...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Fri Feb 3 17:02:42 2012

In-Reply-To: <86d39yknou.fsf@seastrom.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:01:54 -0800
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Robert E. Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Any thoughts on products that screw up networks in deterministic (and
> realistic found-in-the-wild) ways? =A0I'm thinking of stuff like
> PacketStorm, Dummynet, etc. =A0Dial up jitter, latency, tail drop, RED,
> whatever...
>
> (I know someone's gonna say "Just buy a Brand Z FubarSwitch 3k, they
> will screw up your whole network and you don't even have to configure
> it to do so!")
>
> I'm all-ears like Ross Perot.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -r

Definite +1 for dummynet on freebsd; I've used in the lab at layer 2 in
bridge mode, and layer 3 both, for doing testing.  latency introduction
is good down to a few ms, but isn't accurate below that--but for most
of what we do, in terms of simulating latency and loss/jitter, it works
like a charm.

Matt


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