Simulating slow connection?

Networking and Multiplayer Programming

Started by Zoomby September 01, 2003 12:13 PM

2 comments, last by Zoomby 20 years, 7 months ago

Zoomby

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September 01, 2003 12:13 PM

hi! Is there a tool to simulate slow network connections on the local host? bye Zoomby

RonHiler

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September 01, 2003 12:19 PM

hehe, deja-vu. I asked almost the exact same question not too long ago. For me, I simulated lag internally by adding a random delay between reciept of a packet and processing it. However, there were other good suggestions as well. You can find them here.

Ron

Creation is an act of sheer will

Zoomby

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September 01, 2003 12:42 PM

thanks!

Bracket

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September 01, 2003 12:45 PM

Everytime I need to do this, I stick a FreeBSD firewall up between the two machines and use DUMMYNET. You can pretty accurately simulate nasty dialup, DSL to the moon, or just a busy T1 if you want to....

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/

There''s probably something similar for Linux; I wouldn''t know, I''m a BSD kind of guy!