[H-GEN] network traffic shaping

[Russell Stuart]

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On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 18:16, Peter Arnold wrote:
> Does anyone know of or have a favouite application or metthod of shaping
> network traffic?
> 
> I'd like to simulate various network situations like 128K links and modify
> latency and drop packets etc.
> 
> Freshmeat and sourceforge serches reveal a few in various states of
> development (or not!) but I'd like any recomendations or otherwise.

You don't say what OS, or how you want the traffic shaped.  If the OS is
Linux, then the answer is probably "via the traffic control engine built
into the Linux kernel", unless you want to do something pretty weird. 
That is why there is nothing on sourceforge - it is already available in
a vanilla 2.4 kernel.

The linux command used to configure the traffic control engine is "tc". 
There is no manual, but there is a "Linux Advanced Routing HOWTO".

If you can tell me exactly what you want to to I may be able to help
further.

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