[H-GEN] Software to simulate network errors

[Jason McDonald]

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Afternoon all,

I'n presently doing some work [1] on testing some software that has a
client and a server talking to each other over TCP/IP and need to test the
behaviour of the software under a variety of network problems.

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).

Any info would be much appreciated,

J.


[1] It's true, I've found my way into the real world at last....


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