MIMIC 10.30 Performance Test Report: Windows 64-bit bakeoff

FYI, we have published a new MIMIC Simulator 10.30 Performance Report

"Windows 64-bit bakeoff on dual-core Intel Pentium"

This report is part of a series meant to answer the question "which
combination of hardware and software performs the best for a particular
SNMP simulation scenario?".

The summary is:
"...
This report compares MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 running under 4 recent Windows versions

• Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2
• Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
• Windows Server 2008 Standard
• Windows 7 Professional

on a commonly available desktop model Dell Vostro 200 with a Intel Pentium dual core E2160 1.8GHz and 2 GB of RAM. 

In this report we focus on the 64-bit executable version of MIMIC. The 32-bit version is documented in a separate report. The 2 versions run comparably for all platforms, overwhelmingly within single-digit percentage difference, except for Windows 7, where 64-bit runs around 20% slower for some cells in the 2,000 and 5,000 agent configurations.

 As we have seen in past reports, the Windows OS versions successively perform worse in our standard SNMP performance tests. Windows Server 2003 performs best, followed by Vista and Server 2008 (although it is a toss-up between those 2, depending on your requirements), and finally Windows 7 performs worst. 

The following matrix compares Windows Server 2003 to Windows Vista. The 2 versions are about even (within single-digit percentage difference) for 10 and 100 agent configurations. But, for 1,000 to 5,000 agents, Windows 2003 outperforms Vista (red cells), even though Vista seems to perform better for low agent numbers.
 ..."

Please contact support@gambitcomm.com for details.

MIMIC 10.30 Performance Test Report: Windows 32-bit bakeoff

FYI, we have published a new MIMIC Simulator 10.30 Performance Report

"Windows 32-bit bakeoff on dual-core Intel Pentium"

This report is part of a series meant to answer the question "which
combination of hardware and software performs the best for a particular
SNMP simulation scenario?".

The summary is:
"...
This report compares MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 running under the 5 most
recent Windows versions

    * Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2
    * Windows XP Professional SP3
    * Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
    * Windows Server 2008 Standard
    * Windows 7 Professional

on a commonly available desktop model Dell Vostro 200 with a Intel
Pentium dual core E2160 1.8GHz and 2 GB of RAM.

In this report we focus on the 32-bit executable version of MIMIC. The
64-bit version is documented in a separate report.

As we have seen in past reports, the Windows OS versions successively
perform worse in our standard SNMP performance tests. Windows Server 2003
performs best, followed by XP, Vista and Server 2008 (although it is a
toss-up between those 3, depending on your requirements), and finally
Windows 7 performs worst.
..."

Please contact support@gambitcomm.com for details.

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 runs on Fedora 13 LXDE spin

In our quest to run MIMIC Simulator on as many platforms as possible, we have
recently tested it on the newly released Fedora 13 LXDE spin.
After disabling the firewall, we show an active SNMP simulation in this screenshot:

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 runs out-of-the-box on Knoppix 6.2

We have just run MIMIC SNMP Simulator on Knoppix 6.2
without any problems. The screenshot shows activity on a SNMP simulation:

New MIMIC Application Brief: Port Scanner and Sweeper Testing

We have just released a new application brief for MIMIC Server Simulator, which
in conjunction with MIMIC SNMP Simulator creates virtual networks for development,
testing and training of network management applications.

Here is an excerpt:

A fast, easy way of containing capital expenditures for port scanning and network management
software testing is by using the MIMIC Server Simulator. MIMIC Server Simulator creates a large
network with a variety of devices with different IP addresses. Each of them can be setup to
support many services running on different ports. MIMIC makes it easier to switch ports on/off at
run-time. It is also very easy to add latency or create a faulty links by dropping packets. Since
MIMIC’s services are proxied, even the advanced port+probing software can be fooled into
thinking that the actual service is there.

For details, see the Gambit website.

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 runs on antiX-M8.5

FYI, we have run MIMIC SNMP Simulator on antiX-M8.5 Linux with no problems. The screenshot of an active SNMP
simulation being accessed remotely is below:

MIMIC SNMP Simulator runs on MEPIS Linux 8.5

FYI, we were able to run MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 on
MEPIS Linux straight out of the box,
as shown in the screenshot below.