Simulating network latency

Kevin Stevens freebsd at pursued-with.net
Fri May 14 16:04:09 PDT 2004



On Fri, 14 May 2004, Mike Jeays wrote:

> Is there a way to set up a machine with two network cards, which will
> simply forward every packet from one card to the other, but will
> introduce an arbitrary delay period?  Ideally, the delay period should
> be adjustable, and optionally different in the two directions.

Yes, man dummynet, and google for examples of people doing this very
thing.  We've done it in our lab here for that purpose.

KeS


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