Re: Simulating a "bad" connection.

[Andy Furniss <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tommy W wrote:
> Hi,
> I was just wondering if someone knows of a good way to simulate a "bad" 
> network?.
> I want high latency AND/OR high packet loss.
>
> I was thinking along the lines  
> iptables -I INPUT -m random --average 90 -j DROP
>
> but then I get libipt_random.so doesn't exist.
> I see that it is not included, how do you get it ?
>
> kernel: 2.6.16-rc5
> iptables: 1.3.4
>
> or is there some other more simple solution?
>
> Thanks in advance
> /Tommy

http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Netem

Is in kernel.

Andy.