I'd like to thank everyone who responded to this thread. The next time I see my friend, I'll ask him to share his experiences so that I may post those on the list.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Henry Linneweh <hrlinne...@sbcglobal.net>wrote: > here are some modules that might help > http://www.pwsstore.com/cellularembeddedmodules.aspx > > -henry > > ________________________________ > > From: Andy Davidson <a...@nosignal.org> > To: Saqib Ilyas <msa...@gmail.com> > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Sat, November 6, 2010 5:50:20 AM > Subject: Re: Emulating a cellular interface > > > > 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<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8#TRAFFIC_SHAPER_%28DUMMYNET%29_CONFIGURATION> > > > Andy > -- Muhammad Saqib Ilyas PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering Lahore University of Management Sciences
