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Subject: Re: [9fans] Inducing artificial latency
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> the ethernet, or shim ethernet, device seems like a better place for
this.
> ip is not the only protocol!  that's what loopback(3) does, but without
> the real network.  it would be good to plug loopback or similar into a
real
> ethernet.  it's also worth looking at loopback's implementation
strategy,
> which allows for =C2=B5s delays.  sleep is just too course-grained for =
my
> testing.
>=20
> dialing up random reordering would seem to me to be a feature at
> this level.

out of curiosity, has anyone played with loopback to allow you to change
the order of packets?  Is that even allowed on Plan 9?

  EBo --