Delay and loss tests using netem on a healthy network

Purpose of this document

We needed a lab environment that can provide a "break on purpose network" to developers to test their code on it. You can add;

to a connection on the fly. To do it we need "netem" modules help.

NETEM

Since kernel 2.6 netem is included in iproute2 package, basically all modern distro's has it now. You can find a documentation on Netem

i am going to explain the required steps here ;


Revision #2
Created 9 November 2022 11:51:03 by Mesut Bayrak
Updated 11 November 2022 08:15:14 by Mesut Bayrak