Dan Monjar wrote:
Most of the firewalling implementations these days have the ability to do this. The most flexible and powerful (and ironically also the simplest), is OpenBSD's "pf" firewall. Another perfectly serviceable implementation is FreeBSD's ipfw2 - which is as capable as "pf" for 90% of things, just not quite as intuitive to configure (it's more like iptables than pf).
Anyone know of any techniques to throttle bandwidth on a LAN for testing? We want to see how an application would run across a WAN of varying bandwidth. How would I make a Ethernet segment throttle down to something like T1 speeds?
Then, there's iptables under Linux. In order to to traffic shaping you need to couple iptables with another tool to handle the traffic shaping. I have no practical experience with this, although a cursory bit of research shows that it should be possible with tc or tcng. Perhaps someone can provide some insight into other possible ways to accomplish traffic shaping under Linux. The last time I looked at doing it with Linux was easily 2+ years ago, and I'm sure many developments to the available tools have been made since then.
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