related to the network simulators and other VM-management tools
The Cloonix network emulator continues to be actively developed. In version 53, it provides container support, a rootless installation option, experimental support for WiFi emulation, and a simplified user experience.
As of early 2024, my list of network simulation and emulation tools remains stable. This post provides the latest status of the tools I list in this blog.
A list of network simulators that meet the unique requirements of educators in secondary schools, who teach students aged 14 to 18.
I reviewed the development and support status of all the network emulators and network simulators previously featured in my blog, as of early 2023.
This post will review how the Containerlab network emulator works with the FRR open-source router.
As we work through this tutorial, we will learn how to use the cloonix graph interface to build a simulation scenario that includes two small IPv6 networks connected to each other by two routers via static routes. We will also learn how cloonix saves network topologies and guest virtual machine root filesystems. The cloonix open-source
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