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Date:      Thu, 16 May 2002 20:24:45 -0400
From:      "James B. Wilkinson" <jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <a05100306b909fd9084b5@[153.9.17.27]>

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I've got to teach a new graduate course in networking this fall. I'm 
looking at using vol 1 and maybe vol 2 of "TCP/IP Illustrated" by 
Richard Stevens. The basic premise of the book seems to be to do 
experiments on a working network in order to learn about the 
protocols. One thing that I thought about doing is to have them do 
that sort of thing here as well as to read about what he did to do 
the book. It seemed useful to me to have some of the machines set up 
with a version of FreeBSD that let you fool around with what the IP 
and TCP layers were doing. E.g. introduce delays in the transmission 
of ack's so that packets get retransmitted or so that you can watch 
the RTT estimate catch up. Maybe pick out particular TCP segments and 
lose them. When I started looking at how one might do this, it seemed 
like it might be hard. So I got to wondering if somebody had already 
done it so that I don't have to. I have no idea how to do a Google 
search for something like that.

Do any of you guys know about any software like that. I spose it 
would have to be a hacked version of a kernel.

Thanks
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Jimmy Wilkinson            | Perfesser of Computer Science
jimmy@cs.CofC.edu          | The College of Charleston
(843) 953-8160             | Charleston      SC        29424

If there is one word to describe me,
that word would have to be "profectionist".
Any form of incompitence is an athema to me.
Metathesis??? Don't ax me.

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