[nycbug-talk] Dummynet - Windows?

[Hans Zaunere]

> > > > 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 ;)

A badly configured Windows server?  Right...

But, unfortunately, it's not HTTP traffic that we're working with.  I guess Squid *could* proxy anything, but setting it (or especially the Windows proxy) up to proxy, let's say, a database protocol, would be time prohibitive.  Good idea for the future though, and maybe we could implement it over the longer term.

H