Subject: Re: want to randomly drop packets based on percent

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:19:15 -0700

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:38:33 -0400
George Nychis <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I'm using the 2.4.32 kernel with madwifi and iproute2 version 
> 2-2.6.16-060323.tar.gz
> 
> I wanted to insert artificial packet loss based on a percent so i found:
> network emulab qdisc could do it, so i compiled support into the kernel 
> and tried:
> tc qdisc change dev eth0 root netem loss .1%

Most likely, you the version of the kernel you are running was not
configured with netem enabled.