Basically you are asking hardware emulation for hosts, routers, switches in software. For i386 machine emulation you can use vmware (for Linux and NT) and you can create many PC within one PC desktop environment and can setup as hosts and routers. Not sure how you to emulate Switches and HUB. http://www.vmware.com Rajeev On Wednesday 12 September 2001 07:09, Stuart_Luscombeat_private wrote: > Hi, > > This may be a bit of a stupid question, but is there a piece of > software that allows you to > run a virtual network? Allowing you to add in routers, hosts, switches etc. > and then test the affect > of changes to that environment without actually have to affect the live > environment. > > An example of a use for this would be if a specific router went down, who > would it affect? > Or, if a virus were to get onto the network (hopefully the AV would get it > first), how would it spread? > > Any ideas?? > > Regards -- ******************************************************************** Rajeev Kumar (rajeevat_private) http://www.rajeevnet.com ******************************************************************** -- PGP PUBLIC KEY -- http://www.rajeevnet.com/crypto/mypubkey ******************************************************************** What's New on rajeevnet.com: o Unix/Windows password Sync: http://www.rajeevnet.com/linux/passwd_sync/passwd_sync.html o Wonders of 'dd' and 'netcat' :: Cloning Operating Systems http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html ******************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: https://alerts.securityfocus.com/
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