Lab Tests

Test Network

A basic test network has been setup at the Telebit location. The network mimics the proposed production network and it is possible to integrate the test routers into the test setup as both backbone routers and as routes providing NRNs access to the backbone. The flexible test setup allows both backbone issues, such as IBGP and internal routing, as well as NRN connectivity to be examined. The current setup is depicted below.

So far, all the routers in the test network are TBC2000/1 routers.

Configuration file of : Core Router

NRN-1

NRN-2

Performance

Simple throughput tests will be performed for each of the routers using Telebit's internal traffic generator.

Compliance

Each router will be tested for compliance with the latest specifications using the TAHI testing tool. The tool currently supports tests of compliance with

Core IPv6
ICMPv6
Neighbor Discovery

Using the Merit Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit and Zebra, the routing protocols will be tested.

Interoperability

These tests will be performed in the test setup that is as close to the setup of the expected production network as possible, and will focus on the issues that needs to be resolved before NRNs are able to peer with the backbone. Possible problems could be Interoperability between routing protocol, IPv6 over ATM, IPv6 over other media (LAN) and IP6-in-IP4 tunnel implementations.