Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:21:58 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: want to randomly drop packets based on percent |
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> > I'm using the 2.4.32 kernel with madwifi and iproute2 version > 2-2.6.16-060323.tar.gz > > I wanted to insert artificial packet loss based on a percent so i found: > network emulab qdisc could do it, so i compiled support into the kernel and > tried: > tc qdisc change dev eth0 root netem loss .1%
You could just use the 'random' match module from netfilter/POMng, but I doubt it will compile out-of-the-box on 2.4.32. It would then be as simple as iptables -t mangle -I PREROUTING -m random --average 1 -j DROP
> I really only need to drop random packets being forwarded through ip_forward > ... however randomly dropping any packet based on a % is sufficient so I > figured netem would be great.
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