LAN/WAN fault simulation

[Shawn O'Shea]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Michael ODonnell <
michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> We may want to characterize some client/server systems and
> applications (destined to be geographically distant from each
> other) in the face of various LAN/WAN faults/conditions like
> dropped/duplicate packets and varyious end-to-end throughput
> rates, so I'm wondering if anybody here has a pointer to
> something that might help us simulate/tweak such conditions
> for in-house testing.  We're thinking a Linux box rigged as
> a switch might be the heart of such a test bed but would love
> not to have to reinvent any wheels...
>
>
There's a tool called WanEm, designed for this kind of stuff.
http://wanem.sourceforge.net/

-Shawn
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