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h3. 2. Simulation program

h4. 2.1. Simulation

First simulation has been run without modems. 

Step 1. Configuration the network architecture (IP addresses and routes). Command lines are described in part II.3.

Step 2. Addition of space delay to PEP interface. This has to be done also on the hub interface.

@tc qdisc add dev p5p1 root netem delay 300ms@

Step 3. Test connection and delay from 192.168.2.1 to 192.168.3.3

@ping -I 192.168.2.1 192.168.3.2@

Step 4. Implementation of routing rules in order to use PEPSal. Indeed PEPSal uses port 5000, consequently TCP flow must be redirected on this port. This step has to be executed on the PEP.

@iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.2.1 --proto tcp --tcp-flags ALL SYN -j QUEUE

iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -d 192.168.2.1 --proto tcp --tcp-flags ALL SYN -j QUEUE

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.2.1 --proto tcp -j REDIRECT --to-port 5000

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 192.168.2.1 --proto tcp -j REDIRECT --to-port 5000@

Table mangle is used to identify packets to be transfered and table nat is used to determine where packets must be forwarded.

Display all rules to verify

@iptables -t mangle -t nat -L@

Step 5. Execution of PEPSal.

@pepsal@ (add -d if you want to run on daemon mode)

Then a TCP flow is simulated thanks to the iperf command.

h4. 2.2. Post processing

In order to get information on TCP packets, tcpdump commmand is executed on the remote terminal. Data are collected in a .pcap file.

Command is:

@tcpdump -i p5p1 tcp -w fileName.pcap@

Files transfer from PC engine to local computer is done as following:

@scp labo@192.168.0.200:home/labo/fileName.pcap home/labo/Proj3 @

The file generated by tcpdump command is compatible with Wireshark. Wireshark is a free network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what is happening on your network at a microscopic level. Thanks to this tool, we can compare with and without PEPSal :

* evolution of sequence number

* throughput

* windows size evolution

* RTT

Tests in terms of quality of usage, such as download a web browser, were planed. However due to difficulties in network configuration, those tests will not be run.