OpenVZ as a Network Simulator
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Problem
Simulate a wireless mesh network over several openvz instances in order to test the behaviour of a routing protocol, such as OLSR.
Solution
Install an OpenVZ kernel with EBTables support
Kernel Linux version 2.6.18-fza-028stab053.5-686 supports Ebtables
Install all the utils
vzctl and al
Add a bridge on the HOST
brctl addbr br0
Add all the interfaces to the Bridge
brctl addif veth120.2 br0 brctl show
OLSR
to be continued