Re: creating artificial latency

[Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr>]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 11:42:46AM +0300, Abdul-Wahid Paterson wrote:
> It is probably not the normal thing that people would want to slow
> down packets but I have to remote sites and have a few different
> options for connecting them. There is no copper or fibre so I am
> restricted to certain wireless and satellite systems.
> 
> I know what the latency of these proposed systems would be but I need
> to make a realistic evaluation of the different systems in terms of
> using our in house applications to test what latency would be
> acceptable for users to actually work effectively.
> 
> Is there a way using iptables (or another linux method) that I can
> create artificial latency by adding say 500 msecs to each packet
> before it is forwarded?
Hi,

Google for "netem and delay".

Regards,
Frederik