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On 01/29/2016 10:32 AM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Excerpts from Rick Jones's message of 2016-01-29 09:41:05 -0800:
>> That the control plane (aggregate?) bandwidth for 1000 simulated nodes
>> is "just" 100 Mbit/s is good, but I suspect it is rather "chatty" and as
>> Clint somewhat warned, trying to run that across a WAN with non-trivial
>> latency may be "interesting."
>>
>
> It's not something I'd try lightly. However, we do want to try it over
> city-wide WAN links (so, 20 miles or so), which shouldn't add too much
> latency, but certainly isn't _free_.

I would think that netem could be your inexpensive friend here.  Either 
in the control nodes themselves, or in a linux box configured to 
route/bridge between them.

rick jones