WAN/Network Emulation Software & Hardware

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Open Source

There are only two open source WAN or network emulation software products I'm aware of. Details on each follow, in my order of preference;

NIST Net

Last updated in 2006!

Main Site: http://w3.antd.nist.gov/tools/nistnet/

Download: http://w3.antd.nist.gov/tools/nistnet/requestform.html or locally here: nistnet.2.0.12.tar.gz

A rather good guide to using the program can be found here: http://6200networks.com/?p=97

Drawbacks:

• Cannot be run on the PC the testing will take place from/on.
• Requires a PC with two network cards installed
• Requires a PC (aside from the PC the testing will take place from/on) to be connected to the network (not always an easy task in a corporate environment)

DummyNet

Main Site: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/

Download Booty Floppy: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/pico.000608.bin or locally here: pico.000608.bin

Drawbacks:

• Requires FreeBSD!
• Floppy Image! (You could try extracting the files and using FreeSBIE instead: http://www.freesbie.org/ instead)
• Cannot be run on the PC the testing will take place from/on.
• Requires a PC with two network cards installed
• Requires a PC (aside from the PC the testing will take place from/on) to be connected to the network (not always an easy task in a corporate environment)

Commercial

iTrinegy Network Emulator (INE)

iTrinegy Offer both software and hardware solutions for simple, low bandwidth networks to highly complex, multinetwork 10Gb loads, starting at around £3000 for the hardware;

http://www.itrinegy.com/network-emulators/network-emulator-overview.html

HTTP Only

Neither open source or commercial as this is a service rather than software or hardware.

This can only be used on a PC and run from the Internet but this is still very useful in some cases: http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/