[Olsr-users] olsrd test-bed

[Liam J. Foy]

(spam-protected) wrote:
> 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
> 

Hello Claudio,

That seems to be exactly what we need. I will give this a shot and let 
you guys know how it goes.