NETWORK TOOLS AND PROTOCOLS

Exercise 2: Emulating a Wide Area Network (WAN)

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Exercise 2: Emulating a Wide Area Network (WAN)

Contents

1 Exercise description .................................................................................................... 3

1.1 Credentials ........................................................................................................... 3
2 Setting the environment ............................................................................................. 3
3 Deliverables................................................................................................................. 4
Exercise 2: Emulating a Wide Area Network (WAN)

1 Exercise description

In this exercise, you emulate a WAN. This task requires setting the bottleneck link
bandwidth and delay. Additionally, you will emulate packet losses and run a throughput
test to verify the performance.

h1 s1 s2 h2

h1-eth0 s1-eth1 s1-eth2 s2-eth1 s2-eth2 h2-eth0

100 Mbps
50ms

1.1 Credentials

The information in Table 1 provides the credentials to access the Client’s virtual machine.

Table 1. Credentials to access the Client’s virtual machine.

Device Account Password

Client admin password

2 Setting the environment

Follow the steps below to set the problem’s environment.

Step 1. Open MiniEdit by doble-clicking the shortcut on the Desktop. If a password is

required type password .

Step 2. Load the topology located at /home/admin/NTP_Exercises/Exercise2/.

Exercise 2: Emulating a Wide Area Network (WAN)

Step 3. Run the emulation by clicking on the button located on the lower left-hand side.

3 Deliverables

Follow the steps below to complete the exercise.

a) Set the bottleneck link to 100 Mbps and add a 25ms latency to the interfaces s1-
eth2 and s2-eth1.

b) Run an iPerf3 test for 120 seconds and explain the results. What is the
throughput?

c) Add a 2% packet loss rate to the interface s1-eth2 and repeat part b).