Minimalist BGP Anycast Lab Built from VMs?

[Jan Matejka]

Hi!

For testing, consider using Linux network namespaces. It is much more
lightweight than complete virtualization through virtualbox. On my
laptop, I'm able to use more than 100 namespaces, which means more than
100 distinct pseudovirtual machines sharing everything but network.

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2013/09/04/introducing-linux-network-namespaces/

OTOH, the memory consumed by 100 Bird instances is still consumed, you
just save the memory and power for running more instances of operating
system.

MQ

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.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Traiano
>