Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:59:22 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@freebsd.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical Dummynet Product? Message-ID: <CAOjFWZ5HprMxPtBktQ0%2BHi5Goh=38-dVtNGmh_ELBcwFQSTRDw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110923205025.GI38586@goku.i.pumpky.net> References: <20110923205025.GI38586@goku.i.pumpky.net>
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Have you looked at admin? Know they have a module for ipfw.it should support dummynet. Never used it so don't know how simple to use it would be. Http://www.webmin.com Freddie fjwcash@gmail.com On Sep 23, 2011 2:50 PM, "Crist J. Clark" <pumpky@sonic.net> wrote: > Anyone know if there is something like a commercialized tool > for dummynet? Or maybe some pretty front end software? > > I've just learned about something at <day-job> that would be > perfectly suited for dummynet. We want to be able to simulate > consumer-grade network connections (e.g. 5 Mbps up, 512 kbps down) > over a corporate LAN that's all Gbps ports. > > Command line changes to ipfw rules is going to be beyond the > capabilities of the users. And it would be super nice if users > were able to do things like enable-disable the throttling > themselves, not always go through an admin. It seems well > beyond using some of the GUI firewall front ends that I'm aware > of. > > Does this kind of thing exist? And no, we don't really have > the time or resources (mostly time) to develop such a thing > ourselves. > -- > Crist J. Clark > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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