nitk-nest 0.3

NeST: Network Stack Tester

NeST: Network Stack Tester

NeST is a python3 package that handles testbed setup, testbed configuration, collecting and visualizing data by providing a user friendly API, addressing common issues involved in conducting networking experiments.

The paper introducing NeST was accepted at ANRW'20.

NeST source code repository is maintained at GitLab.

NOTE: NeST is currently in beta stage.

Installation

Instructions to install NeST can be found in install.rst.

Documentation

The documentation of NeST APIs can be read online at: https://nitk-nest.github.io/docs/

Instructions for generating/building the API documentation can be found in docs/README.md folder.

Unit tests

Tests can be found in nest/tests folder. Run the below command in the repo's root folder to run the tests.

sudo python3 -m unittest -v

NOTE: NeST requires root access currently to create and manage network namespaces.

Contributing

To contribute, read CONTRIBUTING.md