[37363] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Simulation and Measurement Software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dave o'leary)
Wed May 9 19:04:30 2001
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Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 14:40:25 -0700
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, wojtekz@idirect.com
From: "dave o'leary" <doleary@juniper.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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At 01:27 PM 5/9/01 -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
>I hate html mail.
>
>18 months ago, I asked about network modeling software and everyone
>pointed me to WANDL. It is an interesting package.
yes, but not exactly freeware :-)
If you are prepared to go down that path ($10's-100K), there are
also some others, OpNet, etc.
A good place to look for network tools is the CAIDA taxonomy
(maybe it will save you time from publishing your own web page):
http://www.caida.org/TOOLS/taxonomy/index.xml
dave
>Everyone had
>their set of gripes with it, but it seemed to be the best available.
>I changed jobs shortly afterwards, and didn't get to do much with it.
>
>On Wed, 09 May 2001, "Wojtek Zlobicki" wrote:
>I need to evaluate what is out there in regards to
> > network simulation and modeling software. I am especially
> interested in
> > freeware that will run on Linux. However, just about any
> application will
> > do. I will compile a list of all the responses I get and
> will be
> > publishing a web page with this info (part of a larger research project
> I am
> > doing). I need software that will allow me to see how different
> > applications react to different network/protocols conditions. I
> would like
> > to create a system that would allow any application to be tested in a
> controlled
> > environment
>
>
