**4. Conclusions**

The core of this article is represented by the development of the HypeRSimRIP application. HypeRSimRIP is a type 2 network hypervisor that allows the user to construct and manage an IP network in real time. It provides functional capabilities such as IPv4 addressing through sub-netting and VLSM, configuration of RIPv1 and RIPv2 protocols, connectivity test, etc. Moreover, the application implements several original educational facilities, useful for teaching network-related concepts: infinity value change, route highlighting. It is intended to also include in the application IPv6 addressing and a RIPng [16] implementation. Some of the personal contributions brought in this program are generation and display of IP datagrams, RIP datagrams, routing tables, charts of the network usage, ping and tracert-type commands, multi-threading (for a more realistic simulation), temporal acceleration, etc. Noteworthy are also the applications' experimental facilities, which allow the user to quickly recreate famous experiments such as the Floyd-Jacobson experiment [17].
