simulating an LFN over 1Gb LAN Ethernet?

Andre Oppermann andre at freebsd.org
Thu Apr 22 07:30:47 PDT 2004


Heinz Knocke wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'd like to simulate an LFN over LAN - my idea is to install testing software
> on 2 hosts, traffic between them would be routed by the 3rd one - a FreeBSD
> based router. To simulate long RTT the router would have to delay packet
> forwarding in at least one direction - does anyone know how to do it? Is
> it at all possible withou some changes in kernel source code?

yes, do man dummynet(4), ipfw(8).

-- 
Andre


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