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mrduclaw
Asked: 2014-04-01 09:54:40 +0800 CST

ESX Packet Loss

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I'd like to test my software with some amount of packet loss. I see that I can do this with pfSense in the traffic shaping. But that's a lot of hassle to set up and create a couple of extra virtual switches and so on.

Can I do this directly in ESX to a particular network interface or across an entire virtual switch?

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  1. Can I do this directly in ESX to a particular network interface or across an entire virtual switch?

    No. You'll need to route the traffic through a linux or BSD box to mangle the packets.

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  2. As EEAA stated, nothing you can do specifically in ESX(i) to acomplish this, however...

    There a fairly simple free tool called "WANEM" http://packetlife.net/blog/2011/jan/12/emulating-wans-wanem/

    Basically you boot from the iso, setup an IP, configured your default route (client side) to the wanem IP, set your tcp parameter and away you go.

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