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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 (Ci
by LukeShu 14y ago
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.
- zokier 14y agoSeems 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
- edwintorok 14y agoThere is also Marionnet, that runs virtual nodes using User-Mode Linux.