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+Netkit is a self-contained environment that makes it easy and costless to
+emulate complex network configurations on a single host machine. The idea
+underlying Netkit is that each network device is implemented by a virtual
+machine running the appropriate software. Virtual machines can then be
+interconnected as desired by configuring virtual collision domains.
+
+Interconnected machines may be organized to form a laboratory (lab),
+which can be used to emulate the behavior of a particular service or
+protocol (e.g., DNS). The configuration of the lab can be saved to ease
+its distribution and replication.
+
+The project was born (and is still carried on) with the main purpose of
+supporting teaching of networking subjects with realistic experiences.
+
+Requires netkit-kernel and netkit-filesystem available at SlackBuilds.org
+
+After installing add environment variable to ~/.bashrc (~/bash_profile)
+or system global:
+
+export NETKIT_HOME=/opt/netkit export MANPATH=:$NETKIT_HOME/man export
+PATH=$NETKIT_HOME/bin:$PATH
+
+You may check your configuration:
+
+# cd /opt/netkit # ./check_configuration.sh
+
+For quick start:
+http://www.netkit.org/netkit-labs/netkit_introduction/netkit-introduction.pdf
+http://www.netkit.org/faq.html