[Xorp-users] Simulation with several routers on one machine

[Xavier Brouckaert]

I'm working on multicast routing protocols, focusing on intra and
interdomain issues.  I'd like to simulate a topology with
OSPF/BGP/PIM-SM and compare it with OSPF/BGP/Another-multicast-routing-
protocol.  It would be easier to have a virtual topology running on a
single machine.  Protocol implementations in J-Sim or ns-2 are
simplified and it would be interesting to simulate real
implementations.  I know that the number of simulated nodes would be
limited but it would fill the gap between pure simulations and pure
implementations.
So, the answer would be routing and forwarding.
I have not yet started coding anything in XORP, I'm only investigating
what could be done.

Thanks for your fast answer,
Xavier

[I forgot to CC the list, so here is the reply from Adam :]
> I think it should be feasible to do what you want to do, much of the
> PIM-SM implementation has been developed / simulated in this manner. 
> It was one of the goals of xorp to do this, but I am not currently up
> to speed on the current status.
> Can I suggest that you send the email you just sent me to the 
> xorp-users or xorp-hackers list and you should get a fuller reply from
> those currently working on the project.

Adam

Le lun 19/04/2004 à 15:00, Adam Greenhalgh a écrit :
> Can you be a bit more specific as to what you are trying to do ?
> 
> Are you wanting to simulate routing protocols ? Routing and forwarding ?
> Forwarding ?