Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems
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#3Upvote for the name.
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#4If you're on Mac OS, you can also install the Network Link Conditioner from the Apple dev tools, which is a prefpane that serves the same purpose:
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#5Would something like this be DMCA'd or taken down because of the name? (Not that it is violating copyright by its contents)
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#6There is also clumsy with what possibly is the best demo gif ever made.
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#7Would something like this be DMCA'd or taken down because of the name? (Not that it is violating copyright by its contents)
I had that thought as well. From poking around various IP law sites, DMCA is purely for copyright infringement, and can possibly open you up to more liability if you try to use it for trademark claims (what this would be), see http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=13f9814f-b56e-... for an example.
If Comcast wanted to take this down, it would be through a trademark infringement claim.
(IANAL, etc, etc)
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#8I'm curious if anyone knows of tools like this that are more deterministic?
I'm in the process of writing a library at work that is basically implementing the CoAP protocol from the ground up and having something that I can script to force the same packets to be lost or delayed is something that I would find very useful for testing. I've been using Apple's network link conditioner, but when I do discover a problem, it can take a long time for the same scenario to happen again which makes testing the fix quite difficult.
I'm currently trying to think through how I'd write this to make the filters easy to setup [0], but if anyone knows of something that already exists, please let me know.
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#9Would something like this be DMCA'd or taken down because of the name? (Not that it is violating copyright by its contents)
The DMCA doesn't apply to trademarks. This probably wouldn't violate Comcast's trademark anyway, as they operate in different markets.
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#10Would something like this be DMCA'd or taken down because of the name? (Not that it is violating copyright by its contents)
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