[geeks] I need a "bad network"

[Geoff Reed]

there's a windows product called cloud IIRC that lets you simulate lots of 
stuff like that (or so it claimed) we used it at corbis to simulate shared 
dialup and the like.

At 11:40 AM 6/10/2004, you wrote:
>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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