Re: Intentional creation of latency in IP Forwarding

Peter Monta (pmonta@halibut.imedia.com)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:30:42 -0700

> Can someone offer some insight on how complicated it would be to
> patch the kernel in such a way as to add a (user defineable) delay to IP
> forwarding? I am trying to use linux to simulate the natural latency of
> certain links (such as satelite links).

I made a small hack for this, might be of some use:

http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9902.2/0334.html

I think somewhere in the same thread there was a pointer
to a pretty complete toolkit from NIST that does delay
and much else besides, but I haven't looked into it further
than glancing at the feature list.

Cheers,
Peter Monta pmonta@imedia.com
Imedia Corp.

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