Starting simulator

To start the OpenThread simulator, run:

docker run --rm -d --name otsim openthread/sim tail -F /dev/null

or

./start_sim

This runs in background a docker container with environment setup to simulate OpenThread nodes.

Adding a Thread node

To start simulating an OpenThread node #1, run:

docker exec -it otsim node 1

or

./add_node 1

This runs a program called node, which is an OpenThread FTD binary, inside the docker container's simulator environment.

Stopping simulator

To stop the OpenThread simualtor, run:

docker stop otsim

or

./stop_sim

This stop the docker daemon process.