The Cloonix open-source network simulator was recently updated to version 24. The last time I used Cloonix, it was at version 19 (see my review of Cloonix and my using the Cloonix graph interface posts). Compared to version 19, only a few details of the installation procedure have changed — the list of package dependencies […]
The Cloonix development team recently released Cloonix version 21. The new version includes some significant improvements, such as support for Cisco software images (via Dynamips) and support for 32-bit architectures. The Cloonix developers also added a large library of prepared filesystems including new, lightweight versions of popular linux filesystems, such as debian, ubuntu and fedora,
We will install the Cloonix open-source network simulator on a Knoppix Live USB drive. Knoppix is a version of Linux that is designed to boot from a CD, DVD, or USB drive. It can run on almost any computer hardware and it runs in memory, so it does not affect the hard drive of computer
I used the Cloonix open-source network simulator to simulate a very simple network. This helped me understand how to use the “point and click” functionality provided by the graph function to manually build and configure a test network. I also hope that the following procedure would be useful as a simple tutorial for anyone interested
For a while now, I’ve been trying to get the Cloonix open-source network simulator working on a computer running the Knoppix Linux distribution. I wanted to run everything on a USB Flash stick that could be attached to any computer and to create a portable version of Cloonix. Since I cannot yet run Cloonix in
This article describes my first experience with the cloonix open-source network simulator. I installed cloonix on ubuntu 12.04 and tested it by running the demonstration script provided with the cloonix package. The demonstration script sets up a simulated OSPF network and runs HTTP traffic between two virtual computers attached to that network. The cloonix package