Looking for recommendations for WAN/packet/latency simulators

[aronesz]

Greetings,

We're looking for either a software package or a piece of hardware that could help us simulate different conditions (and be able to see/feel what it is actually like if we were the user of such an environment) -- i.e. at a location a user may only be able to pull 200 KB/s with an average 300ms latency.

Is there such a software package/hardware out there like that? This would be very useful for us to be able to make better decisions without having to deploy things first and then realize issues.

 

[Valnar]

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/waas/wafs/v30/nistnet/NIST.html
http://wanem.sourceforge.net/

 

[Christopher]

I use dummynet in FreeBSD for bandwidth limited testing. Works well and is highly configurable.

 

[NotMyRealName]

For hardware options, check out http://www.networknightmare.com/ and http://www.dummycloud.com/ for a software option. Dummynet is the way to go if rolling your own

 

[Ehren8879]

I think Spirent makes a business of this. Correct me if I'm wrong