Modifying network latency, is it possible?
Hi!
I was wondering if anyone has an idea how to artificially modify network latency in Linux? Or is it even possible? I have two networks connected with a router running FC4 and at the moment network latency is nonexistant. I want to somehow grow the latency to be able to test some software in all kinds of conditions. Any info appreciated. :) |
Put a bunch of Linux boxes on the network and start shell scripts to copy large files back and forth, or run flood and have them hit a web server with image-heavy pages.
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You could have a look at iptables, apart from normal firewall stuff there's a tremendous amount of flexibility in constructing rules for particular network traffic. I don't know whether using a rule to drop traffic above a certain rate would do what you want or every nth packet but perhaps using the LOG facility to log everything to a slow device may work.
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