[nycbug-talk] Dummynet - Windows?

[pete wright]

On 5/26/05, Hans Zaunere <lists at zaunere.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Does anyone know of anything similar to dummynet for Windows?  I need to
> > > simulate WAN conditions on a LAN, but using a Windows server.
> > >
> >
> > Not exactly answering the question, but VMware 5 allows you to set
> > speed and packet loss % on VMnets between virtual machines.  It's
> > usually a lot easier to test with virtual machines vs. physical ones
> > anyway, so that might be the best solution.
> 
> Thanks Chris, that might work.  As long as we can get something deployed quick and easy,
> it'll work.  I'm even looking at the dummynet on a floppy, which although scares this
> Windows shop, might suffice.
> 
> H
> 

would you be able to achieve similar results using a proxy like squid.
 set the buckets/cache to a very small size and watch the latency
grow.  again, just thowing it out there, as I assume windows must have
some propritary proxy that can be poorly configured easily ;)

-pete


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