Welcome to DummyNet’s documentation!

A Python based light-weight network testing tool using network namespaces.

DummyNet is a tool for working local test networks in Python on a Linux machine. By using a virtual network namespace, it is possible to create virtual network interfaces and to connect them to each other. This allows you to test your network applications without the need to have a real network connection.

The dummynet.DummyNet class is a Python wrapper for the Linux ip netns and ip link tools.

So far, Ubuntu and Debian are supported, but please make sure, that you have the iproute2 linux-package installed with:

apt-get install iproute2

Other Linux operating systems have not been tested, but feel free to open an issue if support is needed.

To get started, please read the Quick Start section.