CORE: Common Open Research Emulator

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The Common Open Research Emulator (CORE) is a tool for emulating networks on one or more machines. You can connect these emulated networks to live networks. CORE consists of a GUI for drawing topologies of lightweight virtual machines, and Python modules for scripting network emulation.

The following should get you up and running on Ubuntu 18+ and CentOS 7+ from a clean install, it will prompt you for sudo password. This would install CORE into a python3 virtual environment and install OSPF MDR from source. For more detailed installation see here.

git clone https://github.com/coreemu/core.git
cd core
# install dependencies to run installation task
./setup.sh
# run the following or open a new terminal
source ~/.bashrc
# Ubuntu
inv install
# CentOS
inv install -p /usr

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