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Re: Background traffic



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> From:  Hemon Bruno <[email protected]>
> To:    [email protected]
> Subject: Background traffic
> Date:  Thu, 04 Sep 97 17:01:05 PDT
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> I am studying the behavior of several TCP connections sharing the same
> bottleneck. 
> I need to have a sort of background traffic, to introduce some packet
> losses and some randomness.
> I was thinking of using a UDP traffic source but I don't know really how
> to choose the parameters. 
> Do you have any idea of how to simulate a background traffic, whose
> characteristics would be representative of the Internet traffic ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>                 Bruno 
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> | Bruno HEMON           [email protected]  |
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> | Graduate Student                         |
> | Computer Science Department              |
> | University of California at Los Angeles  |
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> | Ecole Centrale Paris                     |
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I think the TrafficGen classes might help you out.
Now, "representative of Internet traffic" is unfortunately
not something I think anyone can claim with any sort of
confidence...

- K