I'd like to thank everyone who responded to this thread. The next time I see my friend, I'll ask him to share his experiences so that I may post those on the list. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>wrote:
here are some modules that might help http://www.pwsstore.com/cellularembeddedmodules.aspx
-henry
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From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org> To: Saqib Ilyas <msaqib@gmail.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sat, November 6, 2010 5:50:20 AM Subject: Re: Emulating a cellular interface
On 6 Nov 2010, at 05:53, Saqib Ilyas wrote:
A friend of mine is doing some testing where he wishes to emulate a cellular-like interfaces with random drops and all, out of an ethernet interface. Since we have plenty of network and system ops on the list, I thought we might have luck posting the question here. Is anyone aware of a simple tool to do this, other than rather involved configuration of iptables?
Not withstanding Mikael's comments that it shouldn't be lossy, at times when you want to simulate lossy (and jittery, and shaped, and ....) conditions, the best way I have found to do this is FreeBSD's dummynet :
Andy
-- Muhammad Saqib Ilyas PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering Lahore University of Management Sciences