Emulating a cellular interface

[msaqib at gmail.com (Saqib Ilyas)]

Greetings NANOGers
A friend of mine is doing some testing where he wishes to emulate a
cellular-like interfaces with random drops and all, out of an ethernet
interface. Since we have plenty of network and system ops on the list, I
thought we might have luck posting the question here. Is anyone aware of a
simple tool to do this, other than rather involved configuration of
iptables?

Thanks and best regards

-- 
Muhammad Saqib Ilyas
PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering
Lahore University of Management Sciences