Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 10:46:35AM -0500, Benjamin Zachary wrote: Hi, > [...] Im > testing it with vmware6 where I can limit the bandwidth between devices, but > of course the latency is about 2ms not 40-50ms that would be over a 10mb > pipe. We only have about 1TB of storage and a couple hundred users with an > exchange server database. Im thinking the 10mb pipe will be enough but of > course I need a 3 yr contract to get one installed so would like to get some > opinions on how I could better test the scenario. You can add artificial latency to standard linux network devices with command: tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem delay 100ms See: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:Netem If vmware have well behaving virtual network interfaces this should work. Regards, Kupson -- Great software without the knowledge to run it is pretty useless. (Linux Gazette #1)