CORE

CORE: Common Open Research Emulator

See the LICENSE file included in this distribution.

About

CORE is a tool for emulating networks using a GUI or Python scripts. The CORE project site (1) is a good source of introductory information, with a manual, screenshots, and demos about this software. The GitHub project (2) hosts the source repos, wiki, and bug tracker. There is a deprecated Google Code page (3) with the old wiki, blog, bug tracker, and quickstart guide.

Building CORE

To build this software you should use:

./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

Note: You may need to pass the proxy settings to sudo make install: sudo make install HTTP_PROXY=

Here is what is installed with 'make install':

/usr/local/bin/core-gui
/usr/local/bin/core-daemon
/usr/local/bin/[vcmd, vnoded, coresendmsg, core-cleanup.sh]
/usr/local/lib/core/*
/usr/local/share/core/*
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/core/*
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/[netns,vcmd].so
/etc/core/*
/etc/init.d/core

See the manual for the software required for building CORE.

Building Documentation

Being able to build documentation depends on help2man being installed.

Once that has been done you can run the following commands:

./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make html

Building Packages

Install fpm

http://fpm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing.html

Build package commands, DESTDIR is used for gui packaging only

./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make
mkdir /tmp/core-gui
make fpm DESTDIR=/tmp/core-gui

This will produce:

CORE GUI rpm/deb files
CORE ns3 rpm/deb files
CORE python rpm/deb files for SysV and systemd service types

Running CORE

First start the CORE services:

sudo /etc/init.d/core-daemon start

This automatically runs the core-daemon program. Assuming the GUI is in your PATH, run the CORE GUI by typing the following:

core-gui

This launches the CORE GUI. You do not need to run the GUI as root.

Support

If you have questions, comments, or trouble, please use the CORE mailing lists:

core-users for general comments and questions
core-dev for bugs, compile errors, and other development issues

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