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Old 03-17-2014
How to throttle network traffic?

Hi All

I am resilience testing an application that is spread across multiple servers.

One thing I will need to do soon is throttle the network traffic for specific interfaces within the test cluster. Specifically, maybe make a connection take twice or three times as long to respond....

I have no experience in this area and would be grateful for any pointers on how to go about it or open source tools that will allow me to do this.

Whatever the solution, it will be run from a shell script on Centos Linux servers.

Thanks in advance

Brad
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Old 03-17-2014
There are a lot of options for Linux, which all boil down to the Hierarchical Token Bucket or Class Based Queueing in Linux.

Like iptables is, these are kernel drivers not applications, so not precisely friendly. Often a generator script of some sort is used to build a list of commands. I have occasionally used htbinit.
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Old 03-17-2014
Thanks Smilie

That should give me something to Google....

---------- Post updated at 04:20 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:56 PM ----------

Hi Corona

In addition to my thanks - thanks very much!

Looks absolutely perfect. I'll read some more and see what I can do with it.

Cheers
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Old 03-17-2014
There are two catches... One, it can only alter the rate of transmission, not reception. Two, it's only precise on average.
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