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How to throttle bandwidth on a Linux network interface?

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Mar 15, 202662323 views
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Is there a way to constrain the bandwidth on a NIC in linux? I'd like to be able to simulate an arbitrarily slow connection.

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The netem kernel module, controlled by iproute. You need to compile Netem with the kernel: Once the netem module loaded, iproute's tc allows you things like: (50 % packet loss, extra delay of 50 ms)

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