Integrated Multiprotocol Network Emulator/Simulator

General purpose IP network emulation/simulation tool for FreeBSD and Linux

We developed a realistic network topology emulation / simulation framework based on the FreeBSD and Linux operating system kernel partitioned into multiple lightweight virtual nodes, which can be interconnected via kernel-level links to form arbitrarily complex network topologies.

Main advantages:

  • Real time IP network topology emulation / simulation at Gigabit speeds
  • 100s to 1000s of virtual nodes on one physical machine, each node capable of running unmodified UNIX applications
  • Scalable architecture for real-time large scale experiments
  • GUI: management plane, automated node and link creation and configuration
  • Lightweight, portable experiments which can be quickly and easily instantiated
  • FreeBSD kernel-level network stack virtualization technology developed at the University of Zagreb
  • Open source and free

Current applications:

Technologies used:

  • jails, netgraph (FreeBSD)
  • Docker, Open vSwitch (Linux)
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