What is NIST Net, and what is it for?
NIST Net is a network emulation package that runs on Linux. NIST Net allows a single Linux box set up as a router to emulate a wide variety of network conditions, such as packet loss, duplication, delay and jitter, bandwidth limitations, and network congestion. This allows testing of network-adaptive protocols and applications (or those which aren’t, but maybe should be) in a lab setting.
Related Questions
- When I put new entries into the NIST Net user interface, it seems to hang for a long period, then finally comes back. Whats going on?
- Why are kernel patches required to install NIST Net? Couldn it all have been done as a kernel module?
- Why does NIST Net emulation only affect incoming traffic and not outgoing traffic?
