The cloonix project provides a variety of root filesystems for use in the cloonix network simulator. These root filesystem only have the most basic software packages installed and will not support advanced network configuration (with the exception of router filesystems such as openwrt). To create a network simulation that runs real-world networking software, we need […]
The cloonix development team recently updated the cloonix network simulator to version 24. This post describes the changes in cloonix v24 compared to cloonix v19, which we reviewed in a previous post. Version 24 simplifies the setup of guest virtual machines, improves the link performance emulation tool, and adds new interface types designed to improve
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