Using ns-3 simulator with Docker with Apple Silicon - M1

Apple Silicon M1 uses ARM architecutre and exisitng ns3 docker images are not build for the architecure. You can build your own images.

Getting Started

First, you need to install Docker Desktop for Apple Silicon https://www.docker.com/get-started.

1. Get this repository and build from terminal

docker build -t ns3-base .

2. Run the container

docker run -itd --name ns3 ns3-base

3. Run the simulation

docker exec -it ns3 ./waf --run scratch/scratch-simulator