WAN Impairment/WAN Emulator with WAN Bridge
Playing in the lab and want to impair a link with delay or loss? I use WAN Bridge – its simple and free.
So say I’m testing an SD-WAN brownout/impairment avoidance solution in my lab. For example, Cisco’s IWAN. I’m going to need something to impair links with delay or loss. I like WAN Bridge. Why? Because its simple, easy, and free.
There has been one thing I’ve struggled with in the past year about. Every time I needed an impairment point this burned up 2 NICs on my UCS equipment. Why? Cause I couldn’t seem to figure out how to load one NIC on a UCS as a trunk port with multiple VLANs on it and have multiple WAN bridges with just 1 trunk on a switch.
So that meant, for a recent CPOC that I was doing, if I really wanted 6 impairment points (red circles in diagram below) I was going to need to eat up 12 NICs on my UCS.
There had to be a better way…..
My friend, David Prall, was convinced it “should” work. I was equally convinced that I had tried it before and Continue reading