Hi Everybody,

The question i have belongs to networking and virtualization, so i decided to post it here

I want to implement bandwidth shaping policy in a virtual environment. So i have 2mbps link, which i want to distribute it among Email,http(s),ssh,... and some other traffic. I want to do this in a virtual environment, for testing purpose. I want to run this script on a virtualbox virtual machine, which has ubuntu installed on it. and then use that as the router.

So my questions are:

(a) is there any software that could simulate email,http,... traffic so that i could test it?

(b) my second question is (though not related to networking) how do i set a (virtual) machine as a router? or is it even possible?

Thanks,

as for Question A) I do not know of software that might emulate that kind of traffic, I'm sure there is something out there. Google is your friend

as for Question B) As for a router, you could use the HOST System (ie: Fedora) as your router. As in the machine that runs the virtualization software to create your VM's. Or you can create a VM "Guest" in your Virtual Environment that can be a router for the Virtual Environment, and then add a Route to the primary router "linksys WIFI/Router, or your personal choice"

You will want to focus on "IPTables" not "IPChains - Depreciated"
A very good site to understand the fundamentals of a linux router/firewall

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...rkGateway.html


Hope this Helps!