Re: [mpls-linux-general] Research Topic

[Sanda D. <dr...@ee...>]

	Hi!
	
	I am subscribed to: mpl...@li...
and I got your mail with the solution for testing MPLS.
	I am also a Ph.D. student and I am studying MPLS and this solution
suits me very well.
	The problem is that I tried to install uml but I got this error:

	Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 62:00


	I know that other people had the same problem in August last year
and I read the archives from uml mailing list but they didn't helped me.

	Had anyone the same problem and can anyone help me with this
problem?

Regards,
	Sanda

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, James R. Leu wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> First of all, it is very cool that you are both looking to do some research
> with MPLS, go for it!
> 
> Second, you should both look into using User Mode Linux to increase the
> number of LER/LSR you have to work with.  UML allows you to run the Linux
> kernel as a set of user land threads.  THus you can run muliple copies
> of it.  I have written an ethernet driver for it, which allows you to
> network them together.  Check out:
> 
> http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
> 
> NOTE: you will want to grab the latest version of the virtual ethernet driver
> and probably contact me for help :-)  If anyone is interested in how to
> use this, e-mail the list and I will post a LONG how-to for everyone.
> 
> Third, Yon has been working on integrating LDP into Zebra.  I haven't had a
> chance to test it yet, but it sounds like he has made lot of progress.
> 
> Forth, I will be posting a "near 1.0" version of mpls-linux soon.  This will
> hopefully flush out any remaining bugs and provide a stable full feature
> MPLS implementation for people to play with.  THen the real fun begins, 
> working toward 2.0 which will scramble things up quite a bit.  I'll post
> another message with what is planned for 2.0.
> 
> Fifth, Layer 2 Cross Connects (draft-martini-l2circuit-trans-mpls-05.txt
> and draft-martini-l2circuit-encap-mpls-01.txt) and MPLS/BGP/VPNS (rfc2548bis)
> are the services ISP are clamoring to offer.  Not much has been done on the
> lines of researching for these (none that I have seen).
> 
> Sixth ... I could on for hours.  If your looking for more info
> let me know.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:36:15PM +0100, sk...@en... wrote:
> > 
> > > I am a MSc student who is interested in MPLS, 
> > > and would like to do my project/thesis in this
> > > area.
> > 
> > I'm almost in the same case.
> > 
> > I have here at school between 6 and 12 linux PC to
> > do some testing (they are all fitted with 2 ethernet
> > NIC and some have an ATM NIC).
> > 
> > I am currently writing a test suite to "bench" routers ;
> > it will generate network flows using tun/tap devices.
> > it will allow to simulate thousands, and up to millions,
> > of network flows with different src/dst ip addresses.
> > 
> > I plan to further experiment with LDP, to implement
> > piggybacking over BGP (zebra) and eventually look after
> > freebsd implementation. if anybody is already working
> > on one ot these points, and would like either peer review
> > (well, "newbie review" should be more appropriate) or
> > would think it woud be better to turn my efforts in
> > other directions, feel free to contact me.
> > 
> > Jerome Petazzoni <jp...@en...>
> > 
> > 
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> James R. Leu
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