Minimalist BGP Anycast Lab Built from VMs?

[Hans van Kranenburg]

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'.

Have fun,
-- 
Hans van Kranenburg