Dummynet and simulating random delay

[Peter Jeremy]

On Tue, 2007-Jan-23 14:22:54 -0500, Andresen, Jason R. wrote:
>I have a project that requires me to simulate a link with varying but
>well defined delay.  The link is guarenteed to deliver packets in
>order, so I wish to maintain that behavior with Dummynet.

I don't think dummynet can do this in its current form.  Based on
a quick look at the source, the packet delivery time is set to the
current time plus the current delay when the packet arrives (see
sys/netinet/ip_dummynet.c:move_pkt().  This means that changing
the delay will not affect existing queued packets.

Changing dummynet to allow variable delays whilst maintaining packet
order is not immediately trivial.  The only option I can see would be
to change the dummynet curr_time (net.inet.ip.dummynet.curr_time)
to increment at variable rate instead of one count per tick.  You
would probably need to do some fiddling to provide anything better
than very coarse delay variation.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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