November 15, 2019
Testing routing protocols with simulation is often easier than building a test setup in the real world. INET’s emulation features make it possible to use a real-world routing protocol implementation in a simulated environment. The simulated environment and multiple instances of the real-world routing protocol implementation can run on the same computer. This showcase demonstrates such a test scenario with the Linux implementation of the Babel routing protocol (Babel daemon).
In this showcase, we show how a simulated application can be used as a real application that communicates over the (real) network. Being able to do so opens a lot of possibilities. For example, you can deploy an application that only exists as a simulation model on real nodes, and test its behavior over a real network. Or, by letting the model talk to real-world implementations of the same application, you can test its interoperability and validate its behavior.
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INET Framework