[dev] [FROG] FRR on NRL CORE (fyi)

[Donald Sharp]

Phil -

This is cool, thanks for taking the time for figuring this out and for
posting the results to this alias for future people to find!  Let us
know if you need anything.

thanks!

donald

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Phil Wiggins <phil.wiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
> If anyone is interested in running FRR in the NRL CORE emulation
> environment, I have some build scripts for FRR on CORE that I posted at the
> first link below.  Normally CORE runs Quagga, so this script was a hack to
> shoehorn FRR as a Quagga replacement.  These scripts are not part of CORE
> yet, so are unsupported.  People on this list may want to use CORE for FRR
> experimentation and testing, so you can customize these scripts to suit your
> own needs.
>
> It's best to run this stuff in a VM with no internet connection (after
> installation) since CORE runs lots of processes as root - a well-known
> security issue.
>
> https://github.com/coreemu/core/issues/170
>
> ( install_frr_for_core.sh)
> FRR on NRL CORE build script - assumes Ubuntu 16.04.4 clean installation in
> a VM or physical host:
> https://gist.github.com/apwiggins/44f3592a61965783372aea5881ed9f7a
>
> (core_misc_frr.py )
> used by the install script above to install at ./core/misc/frr.py
> https://gist.github.com/apwiggins/d610c2794c8c0a12a45bfc093fd2e949
>
> (core_services_frr.py)
> used by the install script above to install at ./core/services/frr.py
> https://gist.github.com/apwiggins/747a9a14feff2ce3a3b8760406b825a7
>
>
> https://www.nrl.navy.mil/itd/ncs/products/core
> The Common Open Research Emulator (CORE) is a tool for emulating networks on
> one or more machines. You can connect these emulated networks to live
> networks. CORE consists of a GUI for drawing topologies of lightweight
> virtual machines, and Python modules for scripting network emulation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
>
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