Bandwidth throttling

[Kevin D. Clark]

Michael ODonnell writes:

> 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.

I think that some element of your solution might involve tc:

   http://www.rns-nis.co.yu/~mps/linux-tc.html

davej posted an interesting use of "tc" to this list a while ago.

Regards,

--kevin
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