[Xorp-users] Emulating simple network for testing XORP code

[Yue Li]

Thanks, this is cool.
One comment is that UML seems not to be an efficient virtual machine.
For example we can run hundreds of OpenVZ containers on one physical
machine (8GB memory). I guess you can't achieve this on UML :)

-Yue Li


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:08 PM, victor omwando <vommwa at yahoo.com> wrote:

> You should also probably check out Netkit (wiki.netkit.org). It's based on
> UML, but does a lot of the uml-switched for you and as a result it is quite
> easy to use and the learning curve isn't steep at all. Currently, I'm using
> it to create networks to test a DSL based on Haskell that generated XORP
> config files from the give nsource code.
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Yue Li <yueli.m at gmail.com>
> *To:* Rae Harbird <r.harbird at cs.ucl.ac.uk>
> *Cc:* xorp-users at xorp.org; Marko Zec <zec at freebsd.org>; zec at fer.hr
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:13:23 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Xorp-users] Emulating simple network for testing XORP code
>
> We have done this using OpenVZ and a network emulator PRIME on Linux.
> Please check out the link below.
>
> http://www.primessf.net/pub/Public/WebHome/paper-xorpbgp.pdf
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Rae Harbird <r.harbird at cs.ucl.ac.uk>wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> This was probably IMUNES. Since I last touched IMUNES, I believe it is
>> being ported rewritten for the FreeBSD Network Stack Virtualization Project:
>>
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/Image
>>
>> From the wiki: "The network stack virtualization project aims at extending
>> the FreeBSD kernel to maintain multiple independent instances of networking
>> state"
>>
>> I don't think it's ready for use in this incarnation yet and I'm not sure
>> that the previous instantiation (imunes) is supported.
>>
>> I have cc'd Marco Zec, the principle developer, as this information may
>> not be up-to-date.
>>
>> Any other options?
>>
>>
>>
>> Rae
>> ===
>>
>> 2009/6/30 Bruce Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net>
>>
>>> Rae Harbird wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have recommendations for emulating a small, simple network
>>>> of XORP routers on a single Linux platform? I want to test my XORP code.
>>>>
>>>
>>> There is something out there that might wrap XORP in some kind of
>>> virtualization environment, although I can't remember what the name of this
>>> thing is -- it was mentioned on this list in the last 12 months, a trawl
>>> through the list archives may help. Sorry, it's just a vague memory at the
>>> moment.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> BMS
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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