ipfw not delaying requests on localhost (OS X)

Question

I'm trying to add some latency to a connection to a webapp running on localhost:8080 (Tomcat). I've tried adding the following:

sudo ipfw pipe 1 config delay 500ms
sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 dst-port 8080

But in the browser I'm watching requests to the webapp turnaround in under 10ms according to the browser's debugger. Is it possible I'm missing something in my pipe configuration or just not understanding what the browser is saying?

I've also tried adding really long delays (up to a few seconds) but it doesn't seem to stop me from: telnet localhost 8080 and connecting immediately.

Answer 1

I'm playing around with this myself. Try also setting your src-port to be the same.

This works fine for me:

# sudo ipfw pipe 1 config delay 500ms
# sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 9160
# sudo ipfw add 2 pipe 1 dst-port 9160

Viewing the ipfw settings helps debugging any problems too:

# sudo ipfw show
00001    58   69110 pipe 1 ip from any 9160 to any
00002    59    3138 pipe 1 ip from any to any dst-port 9160

# sudo ipfw pipe show
00001: unlimited  500 ms   50 sl. 1 queues (1 buckets) droptail
    mask: 0x00 0x00000000/0x0000 -> 0x00000000/0x0000
BKT Prot ___Source IP/port____ ____Dest. IP/port____ Tot_pkt/bytes Pkt/Byte Drp
  0 tcp        127.0.0.1/53547       127.0.0.1/9160   270    92414  0    0   0

In my case I'm using Cassandra, and it (painfully) obviously works.

Answer 2

For me the solution was using the IP address:

telnet localhost <port> (connects immediately)

telnet 127.0.0.1 <port> (works as expected)