From owner-freebsd-net Thu May 16 17:22:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from stono.cs.cofc.edu (stono.cs.cofc.edu [153.9.17.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4DA337B40A for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 17:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [153.9.17.27] (burton.cs.cofc.edu [153.9.17.27]) by stono.cs.cofc.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4H0JfG14302 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 20:19:41 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jimmy@stono.cs.cofc.edu Message-Id: Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 20:24:45 -0400 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org From: "James B. Wilkinson" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message