[Olsr-users] olsrd test-bed

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On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Liam J. Foy <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> Henning Rogge wrote:
>> Am Montag 01 Juni 2009 10:10:34 schrieb Liam J. Foy:
>>> Hello folks,
>>>
>>> We're looking at trying to create a test-bed using olsrd on four virtual
>>> machines (using OpenVZ). However, documentation is hard to find. Could
>>> someone point us to some good documentation? Any heads up when using
>>> OpenVZ? If anyone has experience with this kind of setup we would be
>>> happy to hear from you.
>>
>> you will find all information about OpenVZ on their webpage:
>> http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page
>>
>> With OpenVZ (or other virtual machines like KVM, XEN, VMWare) each VM will
>> install one or several pseudo-ethernet devices on your host-machine, that
>> connect to the interface inside the VM.
>>
>> "All" you have to do is to connect them.
>>
>> The easiest way is to use a linux network "bridge" to connect them and use
>> ebtables to control which VM can hear a specific VM. This way you can only
>> emulate perfect links.
>>
>
> Yeah. I have tried this but I get:
>
> deb-olsrd1:/# brctl addbr br0
> add bridge failed: Operation not permitted
>
> so its some OpenVZ issue. *sigh*.

Hello.
Consider also using netkit (www.netkit.org), based on User-mode Linux.
Here too, only perfect links may be emulated, through a topology
description file called "lab" (i.e. no ebtables rules have to be
specified).

Cheers,
Claudio Pisa