Monday, August 9, 2010

CORE 4.0 released

A new 4.0 release of CORE is available. To obtain the software, please visit:
http://cs.itd.nrl.navy.mil/work/core/
http://downloads.pf.itd.nrl.navy.mil/core/packages/4.0/

This is the first release of CORE that doesn't require you to patch and recompile your kernel. Using Ubuntu 10.04 or Fedora 12 or 13, you can install a single package (deb or rpm) and build virtual networks, using Linux network namespace containers. FreeBSD 8.x and OpenVZ are still supported platforms.

Quickstart installation instructions are here:
http://code.google.com/p/coreemu/wiki/Quickstart

Quagga is available from the following page with OSPF MDR extensions:
http://cs.itd.nrl.navy.mil/work/ospf-manet/

Standard Quagga may also be used, but the configs generated for wireless routers will not be recognized.

Here are some of the high-level changes since version 3.5:
  • Python framework with Linux network namespace (netns) support
  • (Linux netns is now the primary supported platform)
  • ability to close the GUI and later reconnect to a running session (netns only)
  • EMANE integration (netns only)
  • new topology generators, host file generator
  • user-editable Observer Widgets
  • use of /etc/core instead of /usr/local/etc/core
  • various bugfixes

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