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		iam-TJ on Oct 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open-source network emulators and simulators Linux's tc-netem [0] is designed for this: "The netem queue discipline provides Network Emulation functionality for testing protocols by emulating the properties of real-world networks. The queue discipline provides one or more network impairments to packets such as: delay, loss, duplication, and packet corruption." [0] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-netem.8.html

jiggawatts on Oct 11, 2023 [–]

tc-netem is too complicated to set up and its performance profile is very different to real networks.

I mean this in the sense that it can’t even emulate a “long cable” properly.

I’ve tried both the Linux and BSD tools mentioned by others here and they’re all very old, weird, and difficult.

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