From: hcb@gettcomm.com
Date: Fri Dec 19 2003 - 12:24:11 GMT-3
Quoting jfaure@sztele.com:
> What i'd like to do is to simulate a large ospf environment in my lab. I've
> several routers, but i need to test some ospf features like incremental
> ospf and see how beneficts them in a large network as we are planning to
> build.
>
> I know there are hardware lsa genertors to simulate environments like this,
> but i suppose they aren't specially cheap.
>
> Do you know if Zebra software can act as an "lsa generator", without
> having to install it in many pcs obviously.
I'll give a qualified "yes", also noting that you can run it on small PCs that
wouldn't run current Windows but are perfectly fine running Linux/Zebra. Our
experience was using it to simulate multiple BGP AS, and we were able to do a
good deal of that on a single processor, including producing deliberately
errored protocol messages.
In general, I find it most useful to front-end the Zebra box with several
routers, so I can offload the processing of the keepalives, etc., as well as
having multiple addresses (e.g., multiple POPs in the BGP case)
>
> Regards
>
> Juan Faure Ferrer
> email: jfaure@sztele.com
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> "Calton, Doug"
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> <Doug.Calton@getr Para: <jfaure@sztele.com>,
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> 19/12/03 14:18 Asunto: RE: LSA generator
> software
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> Look into Zebra (http://www.zebra.org/), GNU software that runs on Linux
> and other Unix platforms. It provides daemons that do basic routing,
> OSPF, RIP and BGP. Price is right (free, assuming you have a spare PC
> to build it on) and the interface is not that different from IOS.
> Once installed, you can create dummy I/Fs, static routes, whatever to
> load up the LSAs required. I have never done more than a handful, so
> can't guarantee how well it will work for larger volumes.
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> HTH!
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> -----Original Message-----
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> jfaure@sztele.com
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> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: LSA generator software
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>
> Hi folks:
>
> Anyone knows a freeware software that can act as "lsa generator" to
> simulate a big OSPF network only using few equipment?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Juan Faure Ferrer
> email: jfaure@sztele.com
>
> Lmnea de Negocio de Telematica y CC
> Ingeniero de Integracisn de Redes y Sistemas
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