Had trouble to get to the console, but the following link describes it (Ctrl+Alt+Space, release space, press F1): http://blog.gnu-designs.com/solved-how-to-use-ctrl-alt-f1-in-vmware-with-linux-guests/

You know I think that’s easy to enable, let me look into it.

I love the simplified interface.. router on a stick is also cool.

Wished there was bridging though.. that’s what sold dummycloud to me. It means I can insert it between 2 ethernet devices anywhere without reconfiguration and affect traffic.

Any traffic sent to the WANatronic is NATted back to its sender. In your case you are pinging yourself. So the ICMP PING packet goes out, and WANatronic delays it by 500ms then sends it to your laptop. Your laptop sends an ICMP REPLY to the WANatronic (it thinks the packet originated from there). This packet is also delayed 500ms. Finally the circle is complete.

In the second case, have you logged into the WANatronic and are pinging out from the console? In that case probably the traffic shaping is only being applied to one of the ICMP packets.

Running into a strange situation and I wonder how to interperted this. I have a notebook set up with VMware Workstation. A VM is running behind NAT, WANatronic is also behind NAT. I added a route locally to the VM through the WANatronic and I’ve set the packet delay on the WANatronic to 500ms. When I ping from local to the VM I get a delay of 1000ms. At the same time, when I ping from the VM to the local VM, the delay is 500ms. Why is this?

This reminds me of the 90′s when I had a C program set up to redirect anything that came to certain ports back to its source. Times of IRC warfare and personalized exploits to get peoples machines off the net. Picking on my IP was a lesson with reflection.

Now to shrink this .. where’s @lynxbat ? You up for an UberWANatronic 10001 ?