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> wrote:
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.
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.
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