WAN simulation in LAN

Sat Feb 15 13:19:22 PST 2003

>Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:28:21 -0800
>From: "H.T. Sun" <htsun at earthlink.net>

>  Does anybody know any good tools that could
>  simulate WAN (latency, bandwidth limitation)
>  connections in a LAN environment?

I suspect that a fair amount of this will be dependent on quite a bit
that was not stated.  :-)

That said, this is one of the main purposes behind the Luigi Rizzo's
development of "dummynet" for FreeBSD; from "man dummynet":

HISTORY
     dummynet was initially implemented as a testing tool for TCP congestion
     control by Luigi Rizzo <luigi at iet.unipi.it>, as described on ACM Computer
     Communication Review, Jan.97 issue.  Later it has been then modified to
     work at the ip and bridging level, integrated with the IPFW packet fil-
     ter, and extended to support multiple queueing and scheduling policies.

Cheers,
david       (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david)
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