Let’s look at the NetKit network simulator first. NetKit offers some useful prepared labs and provides the NetKit files already installed on a Knoppix LiveDVD. These assets make it easy to try out Netkit. To take a first look at NetKit, we will load the LiveDVD into a VirtualBox virtual machine running on our computer […]
I chose to look at the NetKit network simulation tool first for two reasons: NetKit has an adequate number of lab scenarios ready to use and it is available as a bootable disk image, which makes it easy to just try it out. Because I wanted to keep things simple and avoid repartitioning my hard
NOTE updated February 26, 2013: This post contains old information. I created a page that lists all the open-source network simulators listed in the post below. I will keep the page up-to-date. Please see the List of Open-Source Network Simulators page. I am impressed with the number of network simulation tools available as open-source software.
NOTE updated February 26, 2013: This post contains old information. I created a page that lists all the open-source network simulators listed in the post below. I will keep the page up-to-date. Please see the List of Open-Source Network Simulators page. I found some more open-source network simulation projects to investigate: the Clack Graphical Router,