Monday, August 21, 2017

EVE-NG - A GNS3 alternative for your network simulations

A few months ago I had been searching for GNS3 alternatives. Although GNS3 has helped me a lot the last few years, I needed another, more flexible tool, to run my network simulations. After quite a bit of testing, I decided to abandon GNS3 for EVE-NG.



Actually EVE-NG is the new generation of an older tool, which you may have heard of, known as UnetLab. I had tried UnetLab once in the past, but my experience wasn't that good, so I continued with GNS3. But now things have changed..

The major advantage of EVE-NG against GNS3 is that EVE-NG doesn't need client application to be running on your computer. You can install EVE-NG on a remote server and you'll be able to access it from anywhere, just using your browser. Of course you can still install it on your laptop or desktop computer without any issue.

It's a very powerful platform which supports many different vendor appliances, which, in my opinion, certainly deserves your time to give it a try.