Linux has support for such 'fake' interfaces too. I know diald (dial-on-demand-daemon) uses this for detecting and filtering traffic. You might want to check the diald documentation and/or HOWTO for details. I would like to give more details myself, but unfortunately that's all I know about this :( Greets, Guy Clemens Sibon wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Daniel Bergqvist (daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > How do you want the packets be dropped? What do you want to > > > achieve? Which > > > rules will control which packets get dropped? > > > > We have performed some measurements of packet drops on real > > WAN link. I > > would like to reproduce the characteristics of (congested) > > WAN link/router > > as close as possible. Rules for dropping will not be based on packet > > contents but on a random variable with certain distribution > > which in turn > > depends on parametars such as packet size (e.g. for voice traffic). > > I've been told that for FreeBSD (sorry :-) there is the dummynet-device, > which has been specifically created to do such tests. Maybe this is > off-topic but it could be what you're looking for! > > Check http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ for details. > > Greetings, > > Clemens Sibon > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/
