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Re: Emulating a cellular interface


From: Saqib Ilyas <msaqib () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:49:28 +0500

I'd like to thank everyone who responded to this thread. The next time I see
my friend, I'll ask him to share his experiences so that I may post those on
the list.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh () sbcglobal net>wrote:

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<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8#TRAFFIC_SHAPER_%28DUMMYNET%29_CONFIGURATION>


Andy




-- 
Muhammad Saqib Ilyas
PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering
Lahore University of Management Sciences


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