Network testing and latency

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 04:08 pm, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone here know of any way to *introduce* latency into a
> network?  We have a scenario where we've only ever tested our product
> over high-speed LAN connections (100MB and GigE).  However, we have
> some customers using it over T1 connections, so we need to start
> testing this scenario.

Perhaps you do this (on an isolated network) and generate a lot of other 
traffic to interfere?  A couple machines doing nothing but ping-flooding 
ought to be sufficient.  Certainly, if one of the machines flooding is also 
involved in the connection you are monitoring (either client or server).
-N