[geeks] I need a "bad network"

[Tom Borton]

Have you looked at NISTNet?  I'm looking at running it under RedHat for just the same type simulation.  The other option was dummynet as already mentioned, but I don't have time to look at another OS this weekend...

Tom Borton

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> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of David L Kindred (Dave)
> Sent: 10 June 2004 14:40
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> Subject: [geeks] I need a "bad network"
> 
> 
> I have a need for a configurable and repeatable "bad network" for some
> testing.  I would need it to do things like "drop every nth packet" or
> "randomly drop n% of packets" or even "look for x then drop n packets",
> that sort of thing.  I can imagine how to build such a beast, perhaps by
> using a Linux or BSD box and constantly mucking with the
> ipchains/iptables/netfilter rules, but I'm assuming someone somewhere
> already sells (or has written) such a beast.
> 
> The problem is, I'm not even sure what this thing would be called.
> Maybe a "Network Simulator"?
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
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> David L. Kindred
> Unix Systems & Network Administrator
> Telesciences, Inc.
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