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Quick Tip: Simulate a bad network connection on macOS (and Linux)

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Quick Tip: Simulate a bad network connection on macOS (and Linux)

2020-06-19

Yesterday, I got a tip from a colleague to fake a poor network connection (for debugging an issue) with tc (man page):

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tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem loss 30% delay 500ms 300ms

This works with Linux and will add a delay and packet loss to the eth0 interface.

I was curious if there is someting similar for macOS, and there is: pfctl and dnctl. This following commands are mainly copy-pasted from the posts from John Ruble and Sal Ferrarello. Check their posts and the man pages of the commands for more details.

Enable

Add a packet loss of 30%, a bandwidth limit of 100kbit/s, and a delay of 300ms to the service running on localhost:59219 using TCP:

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# add the limiting network pipe
# append 'noerror' to simulate loss on the remote site)
sudo dnctl pipe 1 config plr 0.3 bw 100Kbit/s delay 300

# make use of the pipe for a specific host
echo "dummynet in  proto tcp from any to localhost port 59219 pipe 1
      dummynet out proto tcp from any to localhost port 59219 pipe 1" | sudo pfctl -f -

# enable the firewall
sudo pfctl -e

Disable

Remove the limitations again and reset everything:

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# reset the firewall
sudo pfctl -F all -f /etc/pf.conf

# remove the limiting network pipe
sudo dnctl -q flush

# disable the firewall
sudo pfctl -d

Status

Get your current configurations:

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sudo dnctl list

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sudo pfctl -s all

report

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