[Battlemesh] synthetic test results with containers?

[Leonardo Maccari]

On 30/09/2019 11:07, Moritz Warning wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has anyone thought about running batman-adv/babel/bmx etc. in
> containers to simulate mesh networks?
>
> 1. create json file that describes a topology along with bandwidth,
> packet loss etc.
> 2. create network of containers from that description
> 3. run different test to test scalability, speed, convergence etc.
>
> So far I have found https://github.com/axn/mlc /
> https://github.com/aparcar/mlc-ng, but it is not really usable.
> Anyway, that way we could make interesting and comparable tests.
>
> Maybe someone here has some lxc skills to create something like that.
>

yes:

https://ans.disi.unitn.it/papers/Baldesi2016NePA.pdf
https://ans.disi.unitn.it/redmine/projects/community-newtork-emulator

not really maintained at the moment, but we did some nice things with
that. Does not work with batman-adv as it uses network namespaces and
not full emulation.

l.

> Thanks,
> mwarning
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