IWL's "Maxwell" is probably what you want: http://www.iwl.com/press-releases/new-capabilities-for-maxwell-the-network-impairment-system.html
Good luck breaking stuff! On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, Leo Bicknell <bickn...@ufp.org> wrote: > In a message written on Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 08:51:13PM -0500, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: >> Any thoughts on products that screw up networks in deterministic (and >> realistic found-in-the-wild) ways? I'm thinking of stuff like >> PacketStorm, Dummynet, etc. Dial up jitter, latency, tail drop, RED, >> whatever... >> >> (I know someone's gonna say "Just buy a Brand Z FubarSwitch 3k, they >> will screw up your whole network and you don't even have to configure >> it to do so!") > > The only good L2 solutions I've ever seen are expensive commercial > testing. DummyNet, on a L3 aware FreeBSD box is extremely useful and > easy to configure to simulate varous loss or latency patterns. > > What tool is right depends on if you want to test at L2 (simulate a > circuit/cable with a particular problem) or L3 (just a router in the > middle dropping packets), or testing an end user application. L2, > particularly if you want to simulate things like a duplex mismatch is > hard, and not often needed. > > If your goal is to test applications against network conditions, OSX has > a nifty new tool, "Network Link Conditioner". It's basically just > dummynet with various throughput, delay, and packet loss settings but it > makes it dead simple to select from various pull downs. > > http://www.thegeeksclub.com/simulate-internet-connectivity-speed-mac-os-lion-107-network-link-conditioner > > I bring it up mainly because if you want to set your own DummyNet > settings for other testing it's a nice database of average case > performance for a number of link types! > > -- > Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ > -- ~tom +1 408 890-7548 (Google Voice)
