[135270] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Simulators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo)
Wed Jan 19 09:27:33 2011
In-Reply-To: <1B0C5329DB4558419BE8B3440A66ADF306E2B432@EXCHMAIL1.stsci.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:27:27 -0200
From: Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo <carlosm3011@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: carlos@lacnic.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Anything for Junipers ?
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Gary Gladney <gladney@stsci.edu> wrote:
> If you looking for network simulator for Cisco equipment it's been my exp=
erience that Boson (www.boson.com) has best network simulator for Cisco equ=
ipment. =A0It behaves and process information the way real Cisco equipment =
does. =A0I've tried GS3, it great for routing situations but lacks in simul=
ating switches.
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Shea [mailto:ryanshea@google.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:37 AM
> To: Brandon Kim
> Cc: nanog group
> Subject: Re: Network Simulators
>
> You can do some switching by stuffing a virtual NM-16ESW into your faketa=
stic 3660 in Dynamips. Then there are the built-in frame-relay and ethernet=
switches you could dump into the mix as well.
>
> -Ryan
>
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com=
>wrote:
>
>>
>> James:
>>
>> I've been resisting GNS3 for the longest time, because I like real
>> equipment and to get my hands a little dirty.
>> But for the purpose of simulation, GNS3 helped me identify a BGP issue
>> last week. If it weren't for GNS3, I would not have been able to
>> figure it out.
>>
>> I will be using GNS3 in the future now for as much I can. Remember it
>> is more router oriented than switch.
>>
>> So you can't do any fancy L3 switching......
>>
>>
>>
>> > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:05:21 -0500
>> > From: james@freedomnet.co.nz
>> > To: nanog@nanog.org
>> > Subject: Re: Network Simulators
>> >
>> > So far GNS3 has won out so far. It seems to work on my Mac fairly well=
.
>> > trying it out now.
>> >
>> > On 17/01/11 9:37 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote:
>> > > I am currently researching virtual simulation environments for the
>> > > Networking courses that I teach. I am now interested in user-mode
>> > > linux emulators as they provide more real environments.
>> > >
>> > > The one that I am liking the most right now is this one:
>> > > http://wiki.netkit.org/index.php/Main_Page
>> > >
>> > > regards
>> > >
>> > > Carlos
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Arturo Servin<
>> arturo.servin@gmail.com> =A0wrote:
>> > >> GNS3
>> > >> http://www.gns3.net/
>> > >>
>> > >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 This is another network simulator, mainly for acade=
mic
>> research.
>> > >>
>> > >> NS-2
>> > >> http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/
>> > >>
>> > >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 And you can always setup some virtual machines with=
DNSs,
>> hosts and routers with open-source software.
>> > >>
>> > >> regards,
>> > >> -as
>> > >>
>> > >> On 17 Jan 2011, at 11:58, James Jones wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>> Are there any good Network Simulators/Trainers out there that
>> > >>> support
>> IPv6? I want play around with some IPv6 setup.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> --
>> > >>> James Jones
>> > >>> +1-413-667-9199 <tel:+14136679199>
>> > >>> james@freedomnet.co.nz
>> > >>>
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
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