[Xorp-users] Emulating multiple routers on the same host

[James Courtier-Dutton]

On 8/1/05, Ratul Mahajan <ratul@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
>  > You can currently run multiple BGP instances on the same machine, as
>  > BGP uses TCP, and you can configure the peer address and port on a
>  > per-peer basis.  So if you want to experiment with BGP, this is
>  > possible without code changes.  But the resulting virtual routers
>  > won't actually forward packets to each other, so this is only useful
>  > for routing experiments, not a general solution.
> 
> so whats the simplest way to accomplish this?
> 
> (i realize that the answer is there somewhere in the code/docs but
> specific pointers would help.)
> 
> thanks.
> 
> Mark Handley wrote:
> 

How about using XEN. You can then virtualise multiple Linux boxes
efficiently, and run a single XORP on each one.