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Re: Emulating a cellular interface


From: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh () sbcglobal net>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:51:36 -0800 (PST)

here are some modules that might help
http://www.pwsstore.com/cellularembeddedmodules.aspx

-henry

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From: Andy Davidson <andy () nosignal org>
To: Saqib Ilyas <msaqib () gmail com>
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Sent: Sat, November 6, 2010 5:50:20 AM
Subject: Re: Emulating a cellular interface


On 6 Nov 2010, at 05:53, Saqib Ilyas wrote:

A friend of mine is doing some testing where he wishes to emulate a
cellular-like interfaces with random drops and all, out of an ethernet
interface. Since we have plenty of network and system ops on the list, I
thought we might have luck posting the question here. Is anyone aware of a
simple tool to do this, other than rather involved configuration of
iptables?

Not withstanding Mikael's comments that it shouldn't be lossy, at times when you 

want to simulate lossy (and jittery, and shaped, and ....) conditions, the best 
way I have found to do this is FreeBSD's dummynet :

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8#TRAFFIC_SHAPER_(DUMMYNET)_CONFIGURATION



Andy


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