Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 13:13:26 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: youshi10@u.washington.edu Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix friendly network testbench for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <4638C6B6.4050503@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0705020948520.1519@hymn01.u.washington.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0705020948520.1519@hymn01.u.washington.edu>
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youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for a network testbench / simulator to stimulate known
> networking conditions to test out a component for a product at work.
> I was wondering if there was a network simulator available
> (preferably open source) that's FreeBSD / Linux compatible which I can
> simulate as real of a network as possible on a virtual machine / network.
Dummynet or ALTQ might be good starting points, as is netgraph, depending on
just what you're trying to do. There are also userland benchmark/analysis
tools like flood pinging, netperf, & ab ("apache bench").
--
-Chuck
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