As for the link technologies, Cloonix emulates several link interfaces including Ethernet LAN, NAT and Linux TAP interfaces. Cloonix allows to run many KVM/UML (User Mode Linux) based virtual machines (images are available online) interconnected through sockets to any complex network topology. The emulator uses KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)/QEMU (Quick EMUlator) virtualization. Purpose: practical configuration skiils, researchĭescription*): Cloonix is an open-source Linux router (using Linux VM (Virtual Machine) and contains installed Quagga/FRRouting daemon) and network emulator that works only under 64-bit Linux OS (under Windows OS Cloonix does not work even in VirtualBox). CML Higher Education: Designed for colleges, universities, and community colleges.

CML Enterprise up to 300 nodes (thousand of dollars).CML Personal: useful for certification study (199$), 20nodes max.It Includes open-source images to enhance network simulation and Integrate other third-party KVM images using the included import tools.

CML use a variety of provided Cisco reference platforms to design and test your network. It supports virtual machine based devices using QCOW or KVM format, and can be tied into physical components by “bridging” the simulation to the real world. It allows for the creation of robust network topologies made up of nearly anything you can imagine. Actually (2020) it supports CCNA labs, ENCOR labs and ENARSI labs.ĭescription: Cisco Modeling Labs is Cisco proprietary platform for network simulation. It offer set of labs whose number depend on the cert level. Licence: commercial, costs follow certification levelsĭescription: The Boson NetSim Network Simulator simulates Cisco Systems’ devices and is designed to aid the user in learning the Cisco IOS command structure. Antidote makes this first step a lot easier, by simply removing this initial barrier, and allowing the learner to focus only on the specific topic in question, without sacrificing any of the useful interactivity of a dedicated lab. Often the first step to learning about network automation is the hardest: you need to setup complex virtual environments, labs, or worse risk experimenting in production. Together, NRE Labs teaches skills right in your web browser with real tools, code and network devices. It is the core of the NRE Labs project, which combines the Antidote platform with a specific curriculum built to teach automation and Network Reliability Engineering principles.

(NetEm), 05/2021 (Mininet WiF, GloMoSim, NAB, J-Sim, LTE-Sim), 03/2021 (Kathara, CML)ĭescription: Antidote is a community initiative to democratize interactive, dependency-free learning.

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