Network Simulators

Tue Jan 18 01:45:50 UTC 2011

On 1/17/11 12:12 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Are there any good Network Simulators/Trainers out there that support 
>> IPv6? I want play around with some IPv6 setup.
> 
> what are you trying to simulate?
>   o control plane?
>   o traffic?
>   o interfaces and layers 1-3?
>   o ...

products which I've recently evaluated for use in network simulation
with relevance to ipv6.

shunra - latency simulator nework property simulator.
ixia - traffic generation, protocol simulation, control plane traffic
spirent - see above.

all three have v6 support.

> makes a big difference
> 
> randy
> 