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L2 Network Switch Simulation

This software and documentation are still IN DEVELOPMENT.

Contents

• Classes
• RNGs
• Plotting charts
• Settings
• Traffic and switching

Requirements

Simulator was tested on following hardware:

• Intel Core i7-9700KF, 48 GB DDR4 nonECC, SATA SSD drive, Windows 11 Pro with JDK19
• Apple ARM M1, 16 GB DDR4 nonECC, NVMe SSD drive, macOS 13/14 with JDK19

In both cases simulator took about 0,5 GB when running with all interfaces UP for 60 seconds on varied frames, exponential traffic and handling. CPU usage reamined between 25-40%. During this time about 290k frames was generated on all interfaces in total giving about 286 Mb of incoming traffic. GPU was not used for simulation.

It is suggested to run with at least:

• Modern multi-core CPU
• 1 GB of RAM for short simulating time
• Java Run Environment
• JFreeChart 1.0.19 (Windows binaries provided in repo)