Simpynet was born as support theaching software for the course of Computer Network at University of Florence. The first is utilized for logging the information during the exectution of the simulation the latter for collectiong parameters in order to realize statistical analysis. Simpynet provides a logging mechanism and collectors machanism. The simulator doesn't provide a GUI (such as other simulator GNS3,OMNeT++) but is recommended for teaching purpose, because are required programming skills.
Simpynet is based on the DES (Discrete-Event-Simulation) simulation model. Simpynet is a framework totally written in Python,it is able to simulate the mechanism at any level of the TCP/IP protocol suite model (physical,link, network, transport, application). SimPyNet is a composition of three words that characterise the project SymPyNet A framework written in Python for the simulation at each level of the TCP/IP suite protocols.
