Hi, I just tried running Psimulator2 on Ubuntu12.04.
The first problem I had was I was using JRE 6. For anyone who gets an error like this:
$ java -jar psimulator2_frontend.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: psimulator/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:634)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:277)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:73)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:212)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
Could not find the main class: psimulator.Main. Program will exit.
here is the solution, info how to change your JRE version etc (on ubuntu/debian) here:
I then followed the video, and tried to connect to the the server with the default values (127.0.0.1, port 12000), but I get "Connection establishing wasn't successful. Try again." I tried various ports & checked with netstat -ant; there didn't seem to be any clashes...
Any suggestions would be great.
I noticed psimulator2 allows simulation of Linux routers, making it very useful for people trying to learn networking without relying on proprietary technologies (eg Cisco) :)