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Neat -- I'm still on OS X 10.6 and didn't know about this. Thanks for the pointer! I guess the advantage of a dedicated pain box is that any device, regardles
by rwg 14y ago
Neat -- I'm still on OS X 10.6 and didn't know about this. Thanks for the pointer!
I guess the advantage of a dedicated pain box is that any device, regardless of operating system, could use it. Network Link Conditioner (and the two pieces of software mentioned so far by siblings of your comment) are all OS X-specific. (That's another webdev gripe for another day.)
- scraplab 14y agoLinux has tc, the command line tool, and some other scripts that sit on top of that, like wondershaper. On Windows, there's a few mentioned here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094760/network-tools-that-simulate-slow-network-connection http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094760/network-tools-tha...
- jfb 14y agoSpeaking to OS X specifically, it's dead-easy to set a machine up to route traffic, so you can use the Mac as a pain box, in this sense. Of course, the same largely applies to any OS these days.