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further info about dummynet from Denis
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Professor Lawrence A. Rowe          Internet:  Rowe@BMRC.Berkeley.EDU
Computer Science Division - EECS       Phone: 510-642-5117
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On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Lawrence A. Rowe wrote:

> wow - i've never heard of dummynet.  that sounds like an excellent
> idea.  i'll investigate.

"Dummynet was initially implemented as a testing tool for TCP congestion
control by Luigi Rizzo <luigi@iet.unipi.it>, as described on ACM Computer
Communication Review, Jan.97 issue.  Later it has been then modified to
work at the ip and bridging level, and integrated with the IPFW packet
filter." 

And has been integrated in FreeBSD v4.x... don't know about Linux. My only
worry is that while you can program delay and loss rates for the Real
Player experiment we need to vary delay continuosly... a colleague here
working on a Virtual Worlds Server did "cook" something like dummynet
using the tap interface in Linux. I'll talk to him and see if he's got
anything that he can release. he too wanted to see the efforts of
injecting delay on his scheme to stream data to his Virtual Worlds nodes.

-- Denis

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