What we're building and what we learned.
Image test results, releases and behind-the-scenes posts from the team building netplex.
Best network lab software in 2026: an honest comparison
EVE-NG ended its Community edition in June 2026 and now has a 7-node Freemium build. A straight look at the seven network lab tools people actually choose between.
11 min read →Dynamips and Cisco IOL image compatibility results
We imported every Dynamips and Cisco IOL image we had and pinged each across a real link - 33 of 40 worked. Full breakdown, plus the one real limitation we found.
6 min read →What we write about
Two kinds of post end up here, and nothing else. The first is a compatibility test: we take a whole group of device images, import every one we can find, start them, connect them and send traffic across, then publish how many worked and how many did not. The second is an engineering write-up: how a part of netplex. is built, or what broke and what we changed because of it.
We publish the failures too. A compatibility post claiming forty out of forty images worked would be a marketing page rather than a test result, and you would find out the truth the first time you imported your own image. Where another tool beats us, our comparison pages say so in the same plain terms.
Looking for something else? The knowledge base has short how-to guides for using netplex., the roadmap shows what is being built next, and known issues lists faults we have confirmed and are working on.