Re: Test Lab Best Practices

I love the built-in Wireshark capability in EVE-NG. BTW, EVE-NG Community is free. You just have to get images for anything you want to emulate. Virtual images for various vendor products are sometimes freely available, with trail licenses. For instance Junipers vMX was freely available for

Re: Test Lab Best Practices

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 10:14:24AM -0400, Kenneth Vedder wrote: Hello NANOG, We have been struggling with firmware bugs from a specific router vendor. I am looking to set up a test lab of our core network and a few remote site routers. Protocols would include SR-MPLS, ISIS, EVPN MPLS and L3VPN

Re: Test Lab Best Practices

++ all that was said thus far. Physical equipment with console access is the best way to test software/firmware issues. As for virtualization, it's great for expanding your topology quickly. Use a virtual bridge in GNS3 or EVE-NG and you can make your smaller footprint physical lab into a

Re: Test Lab Best Practices

I agree with others here... Physical lab - gotta have console server for the most control - perle console server is good, and also good ole fashion cisco terminal server (2509/2511 or 2600 with asynch module) Virtual labs are great for testing features and functionality - Juniper vLabs -

Re: Test Lab Best Practices

Appliance virtualization is perfectly acceptable for a lot of things. But there are large sets of problems that you will never catch that way. To the OP : With respect to 'strategies' : 1. Test something to make sure it works. 2. Then test it to see where and how it breaks. Lots of people do

Re: Test Lab Best Practices

If you're able to virtualize some of these appliances, almost any virtualization platform can be setup to connect nodes together. However I really enjoy using Eve-ng . It's a network virtualization web app that can be deployed on bare metal or in a VM. It lets you diagram,

Re: Test Lab Best Practices

In any lab,I find concurrent access to serial ports is still an essential diagnostic tool. In a pinch you can get a used Cisco 2811 for $100, but there are multiport devices from lots of vendors. These let you SSH into the server and then connect to any serial port, giving you separate serial

Test Lab Best Practices

Hello NANOG, We have been struggling with firmware bugs from a specific router vendor. I am looking to set up a test lab of our core network and a few remote site routers. Protocols would include SR-MPLS, ISIS, EVPN MPLS and L3VPN with a little OSPF sprinkled in. I'd be grateful for any tips or