dummynet and modem pipes

[Yuchung Cheng]

On 09-05-2003, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> basically there is no way to accurately simulate modem compression.
> As a rule of thumb, for bulk traffic you can think that the main
> effect is the bandwidth changes (the exact ratio depends on the
> type of traffic), whereas for interactive apps (e.g. rpc and the
> like) more than compression what affects you is the additional
> delay that the modem causes to decide that it is time to build&send
> a new packet.
> 
> also you'd need to take care of ip compression, not just what
> happens in the modem itself
> 
i assume you mean ip header compression over ppp. the simulation traffic
is mainly short web flows (~ 10-20K), so i think header compression does
not matter much (40 bytes vs payload 500 or 1500 bytes) compared to 
modem compression. for html, the compress rate can be as high as 3 based 
on real measurements. it that true? thanks.

-yuchung