[Battlemesh] synthetic test results with containers?

[Moritz Warning]

On 9/30/19 11:20 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Moritz Warning <moritzwarning at web.de> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> You don't really need containers; you can just use network namespaces.
> Here is a simple-ish script to setup a namespace topology:
>
> https://github.com/sudomesh/network-lab
>
> If you want something fancier, there's the CORE network emulator:
> https://www.nrl.navy.mil/itd/ncs/products/core
>
> Or you can go all the way to ns3 if you also want to emulate the WiFi MAC...
>
> -Toke
>

I tried the script and it looks like a good entry. But is there a way to combine the interfaces in the network namespace into one interface? So it behaves like a wifi interface?

A network bridge will forward all traffic to all other attached interfaces, so it is not outright a solution.