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GNS3 Graphical Network Simulator
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visualization of traffic path #3467

Open qqqihang opened 1 year ago

qqqihang commented 1 year ago

Whether there is a branch of GNS3 that integrates the function of traffic visualization, similar to the paper 'Visualization of Traffic Flows in a Simulated Network Environment to investigate abnormal Network Behavior in complex Network Infrastructures'. This paper implements a GNS3 plugin that can track the results of ECMP hash and highlight the path of traffic.

ghost commented 1 year ago

The paper is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050919305022

What's sad, is that the authors haven't pushlished their software as open source, at least I haven't found it. In GNS3 there is no branch supporting traffic visualization.

The authors are using PCAP, that should be unnecessary in GNS3. All traffic is forwarded through ubridge, so we already have all traffic.

I would implement it this way:

But who shall implement this? @grossmj is already very busy.

grossmj commented 1 year ago

But who shall implement this? @grossmj is already very busy.

Correct and also I am looking to move away from uBridge in v3.x, replacing it with Linux bridges + VXLAN or GRE tunnels when using multiple hosts. I think there will be an option to keep using uBridge though if you are ready to accept some features will not be available.