Minimalist BGP Anycast Lab Built from VMs?

[joel jaeggli]

On 10/2/16 12:16 PM, Traiano Welcome wrote:
> Hi List
> 
> What is the simplest BGP anycast lab I can set up using Linux VMs
> running on virtualbox?
> 
> I'm trying to build the minimum virtual lab to test an Anycast
> configuration based on BGP.  I have enough computing power to run about
> 4 linux VMs on Virtualbox on a single laptop.  I'm using BIRD as a route
> server (not Quagga, not Zebra) on Linux. Is this even viable? 

the assuming you're looking to simulate more that one instance
topologically you need a host and 2 nexthops

O1 \
       H2
O2 /

The host learns a the Origin route from two neighboring routers, prefers
one or prefers both. In the later case you have ECMP.

> I'd appreciate it if anyone could share their
> experiences/configurations, diagrams if they've set up a similar lab.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Traiano
> 


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