On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:48:29PM -0400, Temkin, David quacked:
Does anyone know of any free, cheap, or potentially rentable latency generators? Ideally I'd like something that just sits between two ethernet devices to induce layer 2/3 latency in traffic, but am open to any options...
Dummynet. We use it at Emulab (http://www.emulab.net/) to do exactly what you're describing. You have to use it in conjunction with the bridging code, and then you can just do it. By default, it still uses the ipfw firewall rules to match traffic, so it only delays IP, but that could probably be fixed with a little hacking if you also want to delay ARP and other things. Built into FreeBSD. Should work mostly out of the box. It'll also do traffic shaping and whatnot. Your .signature disclaimer was longer than your message, by the way. ;-) -Dave -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ I do not accept unsolicited commercial email. Do not spam me.