[Talk] Network Simulater

[Michael Paddon]

"Anshul Gupta" writes:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Is anyone aware of any network simulater which behaves like actual network.
> I am looking at simulater which can drop packets, introduce delays, corrupt
> the data etc.
> 
> I want to use it to show the reliability and efficiency of communication
> protocol I am working on.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Dummynet. Comes standard with FreeBSD. We use it a lot for protocol testing/
tuning. Out of the box it has a wide range of rate and reliability parameters 
you can tweak. It's also easy to extend for special purposes.

Regards,

Michael