Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Emulating the Internet

Many system are developed on LANs but deployed over the Internet. Inevitably, this leads to performance and reliability surprises. These surprises can be easily avoided if you run Linux, since the Linux kernel has built-in features for limiting bandwidth, introducing latency, packet losses, duplication, etc. Google netem and you will find the information you need to get started.

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