Wow! That is just perfect James... I'm pretty sure I'll use all this information for the simulation... About the "Appointed Forwarder operation or DR election" I will need to simulate those too... for that, as you suggested, I'll use two computers with 4 Ethernet link. Thanks a lot!
Best Regards. Daniel. 2012/8/26 James Carlson <carls...@workingcode.com> > On 8/25/2012 1:49 PM, Daniel Requena wrote: > > James, > > > > Thank you for you answer. > > I had never though about running more than one instance of Trill on > > the same machine... simnet links are new to me... a quick search on > > Google didn't give me much. Do you have any links about it? > > Try searching "dladm simnet". You should get a bunch of hits, including > this fairly practical one: > > > http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/7424-Simulating-the-cloud-a-practical-example..html > > He was simulating routers, but the process is the same. (And, in fact, > "simnet" links were added during our bridging/TRILL project in order to > test bridging and TRILL.) > > On that site, you'll also find links to a separate driver you can > download and install called "hxbt:" > > > http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6625-Less-known-Solaris-features-hxbt-or-WAN-emulation.html > > It looks like a variant of the "hitbox" driver we used to use at Sun for > testing WAN-related behavior. > > > There is no problem in running this simulation on the global > > zone... but the objective is to simulate a regular network running only > > regular bridges and then I would substitute bridges for Trill links (one > > by one). Can you see any problem doing that without virtualization? > > No problem. You just need a bunch of links to bridge together, and then > you can set up arbitrary instances of regular bridges (with or without > STP) and TRILL bridges. > > Simnet links are just point-to-point, so they're perhaps not too > interesting if you're deeply concerned about details such as Appointed > Forwarder operation or DR election, at least on those links, but you can > use one or two real external Ethernet interfaces to probe those > behaviors as well. > > -- > James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carls...@workingcode.com> > -- Atenciosamente Daniel Requena
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