[135076] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Simulators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Mon Jan 17 09:27:39 2011
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:26:00 +0100
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
To: James Jones <james@freedomnet.co.nz>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <F63C8E47-D81D-4633-B8E6-B2F94D8132A9@gmail.com>
Cc: Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Arturo Servin (arturo.servin) writes:
>
> GNS3
> http://www.gns3.net/
>
> This is another network simulator, mainly for academic research.
>
> NS-2
> http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/
>
> And you can always setup some virtual machines with DNSs, hosts and routers with open-source software.
Also to add:
http://warriors.eecs.umich.edu/viz_tools/nam.html (referenced from
ISI.edu/nsnam above), and the Java version, JAVIS
Also worth looking at:
http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/cnet/ (more for pure network simulation, not
tied to any particular protocol).
And of course, as suggested above, just using a virtual network using
something like VirtualBox/KVM and some Linux/BSD boxes, and throw in
maybe Dynamips / Dynagen / GNS3 (http://www.gns3.net/) if you want to
simulate some IOS.
Finally something like Quagga/BIRD for the routing protocol part.
Cheers,
Phil
