[mpls-linux-general] New to mpls-linux some advices please

[J. N. <oc...@gm...>]

Hi list,

First of all sorry for my English level, it's not my native language and I
didn't practice for a long...

I am a spanish scholar and I have to investigate the possibility to do a Lab
for testing  MPLS-TE with DiffServ aware in a Linux router environment. I am
completely new on doing routing on linux. I had reading amount of manuals of
MPLS and MPLS-TE and now I'm considering to embark on it. I am trying to
follow this manual (
http://www.elcom.pub.ro/~adrian.popa/mpls-linux/mpls-linux-docs/index.html)
in an Ubunut Gutsy 7.10 distribution and i had an error when recompile the
kernel (I'm trying to fix it, investigating...) but in many other places
I've read that the best distribution to investigate in mpls-linux is Fedora
because it has a native repository for mpls. What do you think about it?  In
case that I need Fedora, wich version would you recommend: a newer or
legacy? Also, in the former manual I havve noticed that I need 9 Pcs for
testing; Do you think that its possible to virtualize in the same machine 9
pcs to do this exercises? (I am new in virtualitzation to:( )

Finally, since I've read,  the state of art of MPLS-TE is very experimental,
I didn't find any RSVP-TE daemon for signaling the protocol or other
signaling protocol. Do you think that is very premature to do a LAB with
mpls-te environment? I know that firstly I have to learn to work in
mpls-linux in general and later investigate the possibility to do some TE
aware but the question is for the future ;)

As you can see  I am very confused tin this world and every hint or advice
that you can say is welcome :)

Thank you very much for your time.