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[Mingyuan Zang <>]

Hi Csaba,

Many thanks for your prompt reply! :D 

Cool maybe I'll let the students first try the containerlab installation, I 
suppose the guideline link is this one?
https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr-containerlab



Best Regards,
Ming
-----Original Message-----
From: mc36 <> 
Sent: 15. marts 2023 18:13
To: ; Mingyuan Zang <>; Frédéric LOUI 
<>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: [RARE-users] freeRtr installation in VM and configure a network 
topo with multiple routers

according to latest frederic's developments, it works in containerlab....

maybe needs some more fine-tuning to get accepted officially...

frederic, an url for the project please, and a quick update on the progress? 
:)




until that, also from frederic, an other container image: 
https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr-debian

0 stars, last update in 2020, imho deal, but would not be too hard to take 
over the repo????

if frederic finally deletes that repo then my personal archive of the same: 
https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr/tree/master/misc/docker

53 stars, last updated 2022 july, but still unrecommmended by me.... :))))))



my personal favorite is http://portable.nop.hu/

currently under my first domain because not yet official, however i 
officially link it from http://sandbox.freertr.org/

so once again, it's just a trial, but imho this would be the best for your 
students...

currently you'll find here is a native linux binary that runs dn42 in your 
terminal without a jvm...

it's a graalvm.org native-image so i can produce you an arbitrary native 
image that clang can compile to.....

but because as it's a statically linked native linux binary, way more bytes 
to download when you update it....

and most importantly, it's not a jvm so no real-time core-reoptimization to 
fine-tune the cpu caches.......







once we decide that it could be an official project then imho i'll set up a 
new dns like dn42portable.freertr.org????

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ everybody a +1 or a -1??? please write a reply-all to see 
the votes....

thx,

cs









On 3/15/23 17:59, Mingyuan Zang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We are letting the students to configure the freeRtr environment in a 
> virtualbox VM by following this tutorial: 
> http://docs.freertr.org/guides/getting-started/001-hello-world/
> <http://docs.freertr.org/guides/getting-started/001-hello-world/>
> 
> When students completed the configuration and reboot the system, 
> somehow they were redirected to a terminal rather than the desktop GUI 
> interface. In this terminal, the network interface only has eth0 without 
> any IP address configured. Is this an expected configuration to run a 
> freeRtr?
> 
> If this is an expected result for freeRtr installation after reboot, then 
> how to configure a network topology with multiple freeRtrs as previously we 
> thought freeRtr could work 
> together with the P4 bmv2 switches in mininet in VM? (if we understand 
> correctly   )
> 
> Do you have any suggestions for the installation/configuration? Many thanks 
> for your help!
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Ming
>