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Date:      Mon, 09 May 2011 13:58:23 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        quamar niyaz <quamarniyaz.zhcet@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DummyNet configuration for opportunistic Links for emulating DTN
Message-ID:  <4DC8556F.8050600@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinqPMv-Rf-iA9LBT7a2Y3U37AU9hA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/9/11 9:46 AM, quamar niyaz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a application which is meant for Delay Tolerant Network. I
> want to emulate the opportunistic link availability for the data sending
> nodes using dummyNet . One scenario,  suppose from source node to
> destination node let's say a data link is available at around 9 a.m. morning
> and the latency of the link from source node to destination node is 1hr. So
> if a request for upload comes around 8 a.m. at the sending node then the
> data should start reaching to the destination node after 10 a.m. as the link
> between the nodes comes at 9 and the latency is 1 hr so delivery time at the
> destination node(9 a.m. +1hr. = 10.am.). In other words sending node should
> hold the data in its buffer till 10 a.m as the nodes are actually in my 100
> Mbps LAN so for emulating this the sender must start sending the data after
> 10 a.m.
>
> Can the buffer holds such large amount of data e.g. 500 MB for an hour. Or I
> have to modify the buffer size if yes, to which file i have to modify and
> then build dummynet. Or simply writing a batch scripts is fine for this.
> Please let me know. Thanks in advance
>
pull the packets offline using divert, ng, pcap or similar and store 
them on disk,
then reinject them later.



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