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

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