On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Hans van Kranenburg < hans.van.kranenburg@mendix.com> wrote:
Hi,
On 10/02/2016 09:16 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?
I'd appreciate it if anyone could share their experiences/configurations, diagrams if they've set up a similar lab.
What I do is running 1 VM, and using LXC inside to make a bunch of containers with bird in them and use openvswitch to tie it all together.
Detailed examples: https://github.com/knorrie/network-examples/blob/master/README.md
See 'Setting up a lab environment'.
Thanks everyone, for all the good suggestions, this should be enough to get going :-)
Have fun, -- Hans van Kranenburg