Tool for injecting a high number of routes into a lab topology

[Andras Dosztal]

I've made a small tool call vRIN (virtual Route Injector). It's a VM appliance that can be used to flood your topology with thousands of routes (tested in GNS3 with 1M BGP prefixes).  You can use it to bring the real world closer to your lab: test convergence times, learn summarization, check how ABRs work, etc.

Configuration is quite simple: connect the VM's NIC to your environment, boot it up either using windowed or headless mode (it can be reached through the serial console), set the parameters using the text-based menu, and generate the routes.

I tried to make it as small as possible; it only takes 256 MB memory, the virtual disk is ~500 MB.

Available in OVA an qcow2 (Qemu) formats. Download link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vrin/files/

Questions, comments? Raise them here, or contact me on Twitter.

Note: the same announcement was made on Learning Network but I think Support Community reaches more people. :)

[Mark Malone]

Hmm that's cool could be real handy for labs  , grabbed a copy of the ova will try an test it over the weekend

May be back with questions but thank you

Have you tested it with IOU or just GNS3 so far , My IOU runs on VMware as well its just less of a cpu hog than GNS

[Andras Dosztal]

I've tested it with a 3745 router on GNS3 and an IOS-XRv running on VirtualBox, but not with IOU. I'd greatly appreciate if you could give a feedback on that one. :)

[Mark Malone]

Yes I will try get it running over the weekend when im free see what happens and update :)

[Andras Dosztal]

Version 0.8 with IPv6 support has been released. Announcement: https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/vrin-v08-ipv6-support-has-been-released-andras-dosztal