[H-GEN] Software to simulate network errors

Mark Suter mark at zwitterion.humbug.org.au
Fri Jan 28 01:43:32 EST 2000


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Jason,

> My first idea was to place a linux box in between the client and server
> machines as a router and write a program to intercept the network traffic
> and do things like randomly drop packets, randomly or configurably delay
> packets, corrupt packets, etc.
> 
> Does anyone know of any existing (and freely available) packages that do
> this kind of thing, or do I really have to write one myself?  (windows or
> linux platforms are acceptable, though I prefer Linux).

You will probably find the following to be useful.

    http://www.ssfnet.org/

Yours sincerely,

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