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A Low Cost and Flexible Network Testbed
Abstract—New network technologies and services encourage
the search for new networking ideas and new protocols; the
main problem that we encounter developing this ideas is to test
the result of our work in a realistic test environment. In this
paper we describe how it is possible to build a low cost network
testbed, easy to modify and based on the integration of open
source software.
Beside we show, as an example, a practical implementation of
such a testbed and some tests performed about improving packet
transmission reliability using different redundant transmission
techniques. We identified two different techniques of redundant
transmission on an IP network and we performed some transmission
tests emulating situations of network malfunctioning that
proof how the use of redundant transmission permits to strongly
reduce the effects of network problems