Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop

Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop by LukeShu on Saturday February 23, 2013 @07:02PM (#5272024)

GNS3 is another tool for emulating a network. It is a graphical tool where you draw network diagrams, and nodes are emulated with Qemu/VirtualBox , Dynamips (Cisco hardware), or another emulator.

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Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop by zokier on Sunday February 24, 2013 @04:02AM (#5273486)

Seems like the major advantage of Mininet (vs GNS3) is that Mininet is based on light-weight virtualization, so that emulating large number of nodes should be more feasible. Of course the downside being that all the nodes are Linux-based

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Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop by edwintorok on Sunday February 24, 2013 @10:45AM (#5274569)

There is also Marionnet, that runs virtual nodes using User-Mode Linux.

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