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Re: Network Simulators

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Jan 17 21:46:13 2011

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:45:50 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m239or1e8u.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On 1/17/11 12:12 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Are there any good Network Simulators/Trainers out there that support 
>> IPv6? I want play around with some IPv6 setup.
> 
> what are you trying to simulate?
>   o control plane?
>   o traffic?
>   o interfaces and layers 1-3?
>   o ...

products which I've recently evaluated for use in network simulation
with relevance to ipv6.

shunra - latency simulator nework property simulator.
ixia - traffic generation, protocol simulation, control plane traffic
spirent - see above.

all three have v6 support.

> makes a big difference
> 
> randy
> 



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