>For some testing I'm looking for a piece of software which is capable >of inserting various degradation and/or errors into a traffic stream.
There are a number of open source tools (Dummynet, Wanem) with fairly basic capabilities. You can also program your typical router for pure shunning; I have a Mikrotik attached to a rig on my desktop I'm using to simply choke a link down to 512K at this very moment. These are good enough for a typical "what happens when this happens" kind of testing. Sometimes you need more interesting test environments, and then we use Shunra Virtual Enterprise (formerly Shunra Cloud, http://www.shunra.com/) and I've also used (but don't own) Linktropy (Apposite Technologies, http://www.apposite-tech.com/)
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