[geeks] I need a "bad network"

[Walter Belgers]

David L Kindred (Dave) 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.

Not ichains/.., you can use dummynet on FreeBSD and specify latency,
packets drops, etc.

Cheers,
Walter.
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