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Re: ns-2
From: Jerome Benoit <jerome.benoit () grenouille com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:16:54 +0200
Le Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:42:04 -0300, "M.B.Jr." <marcio.barbado () gmail com> a osé(e) écrire :
Hello list, considering open source options for network simulation, what do you think: does it still make sense to simulate network behavior under ns-2 or does Xen opens up a better perspective, concerning realistic metrics and results?
? NS-2 is a network simulator, Xen is not a network simulator ... it's an hardware virtualisation layer to host guest OS. There's nothing to compare between them ;-) honeyd can be diverted to do network simulation. dummynet for *BSD (not very rich) netem for Linux (sparse ... ) Modelnet is comparable to NS-2 functionality wise WANem also NISTnet, barely maintained but ... Cheers. -- Jérôme Benoit aka fraggle La Météo du Net - http://grenouille.com OpenPGP Key ID : 9FE9161D Key fingerprint : 9CA4 0249 AF57 A35B 34B3 AC15 FAA0 CB50 9FE9 161D
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