Bandwidth throttling

[Chip Marshall]

On May 07, 2007, Michael ODonnell sent me the following:
> We're trying to simulate the behavior of an app while multiple
> instances of it are connected to our server from different
> remote client sites that have varying amounts of bandwidth
> available.  We're therefore looking for an easy way to throttle
> network thoughput on a per-system basis in our test rig, ie.
> we want to do the throttling on the clients (a mix of XP and
> Linux boxes) so we can demo a mix of low- and high-bandwidth
> connections simultaneously.

In the past I've usually used FreeBSD's ipfw with dummynet to do
bandwidth throttling and network condition simulations.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw#TRAFFIC+SHAPER

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