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Free WAN Emulators?

Posted by Cliff on from the do-these-exist? dept.

ScottMan asks: "The company I work for is interested in WAN emulation software that does stuff like create false latency, random packet dropping, etc. After scouring every resource I know, I was able to find only one piece of software called The Cloud (at $4,000 a license) Does anyone know of ANY WAN emulation software that is GPL or similar?"

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  1. Re:Use "dummynet" in FreeBSD by icedivr · · Score: 3

    Dummynet is great for this sort of application. I set up a small FreeBSD box at work with 5 IPs. I then configured a different set of pipes for each ip, 28.8, 33.6, 56, ISDN and DSL. I also configured different latencies and a small amount of packet loss. Now, if our developers want to simulate a low-speed connection, they configure their browswer to use the appropriate IP, where they connect to squid, and then to the appropriate devel server.