Emulating a cellular interface

Sat Nov 6 13:50:20 UTC 2010

On 6 Nov 2010, at 05:53, Saqib Ilyas wrote:

> A friend of mine is doing some testing where he wishes to emulate a
> cellular-like interfaces with random drops and all, out of an ethernet
> interface. Since we have plenty of network and system ops on the list, I
> thought we might have luck posting the question here. Is anyone aware of a
> simple tool to do this, other than rather involved configuration of
> iptables?

Not withstanding Mikael's comments that it shouldn't be lossy, at times when you want to simulate lossy (and jittery, and shaped, and ....) conditions, the best way I have found to do this is FreeBSD's dummynet :

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8#TRAFFIC_SHAPER_(DUMMYNET)_CONFIGURATION

Andy