From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ian McDonald" Subject: Re: how to do probabilistic packet loss in kernel? Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:10:28 +1200 Message-ID: References: <4902.128.2.140.224.1145227461.squirrel@128.2.140.224> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.193]:65488 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750935AbWDQCK2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:10:28 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 14so389872nzn for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:10:28 -0700 (PDT) To: "George P Nychis" In-Reply-To: <4902.128.2.140.224.1145227461.squirrel@128.2.140.224> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 4/17/06, George P Nychis wrote: > Hi, > > I am using iproute2 to setup fowarding, adding routes like "ip route add 192.168.1.3 via 192.168.1.2" > > I was wondering where in the kernel I can insert probabilistic packet loss only for forwarded packets? So that for instance I can drop 5% of all forwarded packets? > Have a look at: http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Netem -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand