The ipSpace.net network simulation tools will help you be more proficient once you decide to drop GUI-based network simulators and build your labs using CLI and infrastructure-as-code principles.

Getting Started

• Overview
• Build Your Virtual Lab Faster with My Network Simulation Tools
• Python Package and Unified CLI
• Network Topology Graphs
• Start a Virtual Lab with a Single Command

Use Cases and Tutorials

• Building Unnumbered Ethernet Lab with netsim-tools
• Katacoda Scenario: netsim-tools with Containerlab and FRRouting
• Creating BGP Multipath Lab with netsim-tools
• Anycast Works Just Fine with MPLS/LDP
• Optimal BGP Path Selection with BGP Additional Paths
• Building a BGP Anycast Lab
• Sample Lab: RSVP TE on Junos

Extending netsim-tools

• Introducing netsim-tools Plugins

Release Notes

• Just Out: netsim-tools Release 1.1
• netsim-tools: New in December 2021
• Mikrotik RouterOS and VyOS Added to netsim-tools
• netsim-tools Release 1.0
• netsim-tools Release 0.8.1: Cumulus VX and Nokia SR Linux Containers
• netsim-tools release 0.7: Cumulus VX, EIGRP, and BGP IPv6 AF
• Netsim-tools Release 0.6: BGP, IS-IS, SR-MPLS, FRR
• netsim-tools: Unnumbered Interfaces, Configuration Modules, OSPF
• Build Virtual Lab Topology: VirtualBox Support
• Build Virtual Lab Topology: Dual Stack Addressing, ArcOS and Junos Support