[NANOG] Introducing latency for testing?

Deepak Jain deepak at ai.net
Fri May 2 20:27:05 UTC 2008


Or a FreeBSD box with DUMMYNET (runs through IPFW). You can do all of 
that stuff.

C. Tate Baumrucker wrote:
> setup a linux box between the systems with netem (included in most 
> distros). 
> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:Netem
> with it, you can introduce latency, loss, jitter, etc.
> tate
> 
> 
> Mike Lyon wrote:
>> So I want to mimic some latency in a test network for DB replication.
>> I am wondering what other's have used for this? Obviously, the best
>> way to would be to actually have one box across the US or across the
>> globe to actually test against but what if you don't have that? Are
>> there any GPL software router solutions that would allow you to tweak
>> the latency in between the two test boxes?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -Mike
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