[Battlemesh] synthetic test results with containers?

[Moritz Warning]

I just tries to configure batman-adv in network namespaces and it looks like these maintain distinct states.
It looks like it is working. Or maybe I do not see the problem...

On 9/30/19 12:29 PM, Leonardo Maccari wrote:
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> 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.
>>
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> yes:
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> https://ans.disi.unitn.it/papers/Baldesi2016NePA.pdf
> https://ans.disi.unitn.it/redmine/projects/community-newtork-emulator
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> 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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