[Battlemesh] OLSR/Babel/BMX7 in docker/kubernetes

[Fejes Ferenc]

Hi!

Probably not really related, a little bit more heavy solution, but maybe
you could try Mininet.
I successfully managed to run FRR on multiple nodes, BGP/EVPN, etc. Im
pretty sure it works with babeld as well

Ferenc

Philipp Borgers <borgers at mi.fu-berlin.de> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. júl.
10., Sze, 8:41):

> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 12:09:08PM +0200, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 11:17 AM Benjamin Henrion <zoobab at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I managed to run OLSR in my local Kubernetes (I use K3D):
> > >
> > > https://github.com/zoobab/olsrd-in-docker
> > >
> > > I have tried to do the same for Babel and BMX7, but I failed, I
> > > suspect the cause for Babel is IPv6:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/zoobab/babeld-in-docker
> > >
> > > If anyone wants to try debugging, I might at WBM this week (still
> > > don't know which day though).
> >
> > Just added some examples on how to run 20 nodes with Babeld containers
> > in kubernetes using K3D cluster, using the scale up from 10 nodes:
> >
> > https://github.com/zoobab/babeld-in-docker
> >
> > I have not tried to see how many containers I could run in parallel on
> > my machine.
>
> Cool stuff! I used docker as well to emulate networks and test some ideas
> I have
> concerning prefix delegation in mesh networks. I faced some
> problems/difficulties when I started to play around with protocols that are
> implemented in the kernel. At some point I decided to switch to libvirt and
> kvm/qemu. I wrote two rudimentary scripts that can create bridges to
> emulate
> links between the nodes and can create and start VMs (openwrt based). You
> provide a very simple json file that describes the topology and the
> scripts do
> the setup. The scripts are in python. If you like I can push them to
> github. I
> still have some problems with the bridges. You have to specify them in
> /etc/qemu/bridge.conf before running the script :/
>
> Maybe one should take a closer look at all the network emulators out
> there? Can
> someone recommend a emulator for our use cases?
>
> By the way you can also use linux network namespaces and virtual
> interfaces if
> you only test the routing protocols. Did this in the past as well.
>
> Best Philipp
>
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