From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerry Creager N5JXS Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 22:13:16 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Simulation of WAN on LAN Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Andrea Glorioso wrote: > > >>>>> "er" = Eyal Rif 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 -- Gerry Creager -- gerry@cs.tamu.edu Network Engineering |Research focusing on Academy for Advanced Telecommunications |Satellite Geodesy and and Learning Technologies |Geodetic Control Texas A&M University 979.458.4020 (Phone) -- 979.847.8578 (Fax) _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/