[geeks] I need a 'bad network'

[Matthew Braun]

For some reason, I started humming Pink Floyd's "Young Lust" while 
thinking "Ooooo, I need a dirty network"

BTW, a while back someone on either Geeks or Rescue posted a link to a 
photo gallery of the installation done in the control room in support 
of the Super Bowl. It was beautiful cable management stuff but Google 
has not been my friend (and the sunhelp search is unavailable). Does 
anyone still have the link?

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On Jun 10, 2004, at 1:44 PM, Mike Hebel wrote:

>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:40:14PM -0400, 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.
>>> The problem is, I'm not even sure what this thing would be called.
>>> Maybe a "Network Simulator"?
>>
>> Just build a "router" out of a Windows machine and use Realtek
>> PCI 10/100 ethernet cards.  Same end result. :)
>
> I was going to suggest dial-up to AOL but that works too. ;-)
>
> Mike Hebel
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