Andrea Glorioso wrote: > > >>>>> "er" == Eyal Rif <EyalR@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx 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)
