01 / WORKSPACE
Keep your simulations close.
Your Tcl files live in ~/NS2Nam/simulations on macOS and appear at /simulations inside the container.
THE CLASSIC NETWORK LAB, REWIRED
Make the
network move.
Run NS-2 and NAM on M-series Macs—from MacBook Air and MacBook Pro to Mac mini, iMac, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro. Docker Desktop and XQuartz bring the classic network lab to Apple silicon.
01 Docker environment
02 Apple Silicon support
03 XQuartz NAM display
nam · send_receive.namSIMULATION
NAM TRACE READYUDP / CBR · 3 FLOWS
01 — SEND02 — TRACE03 — ANIMATE
NS-2✳NAM✳TCL✳DOCKER✳XQUARTZ✳
A LEGACY TOOLCHAIN, MADE APPROACHABLE
From Tcl file
to moving packets.
NS-2 is a discrete-event network simulator. NAM turns its trace output into an animation you can inspect. This project packages both tools in a Docker environment and connects the NAM window to XQuartz on your Mac.
See how the environment fits together ↗02 / NAM OUTPUT
See the topology.
Follow the flow.
The included example connects one sender to three receivers.
Run the sample ↗03 / ONE COMMAND
Open the lab.
Start the interactive environment from Terminal.
$
Installation steps ↗ns2THE SHORT VERSION
Three steps.
One running network.
READY WHEN YOU ARE