Launch IOL in eve-ng with keepalive enabled

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j00b00
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Launch IOL in eve-ng with keepalive enabled

Post by j00b00 » Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:11 pm

Edit: Upon closer reading it appears L1 keepalives are broken in IOL. I assume that's why it's not an option in eve-ng. However, GNS3 at least has an option for it as an experimental/non function feature. Maybe that is something that could be added to eve as well?

When launching IOL from the CLI it is possible to use the keepalive flag:

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root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/iol/bin# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/unetlab/addons/iol/lib /opt/unetlab/addons/iol/bin/i86bi-linux-l2-adventerprise-15.1b.bin -l 1
When this is enabled all interfaces show proper status if they're actually down.

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Switch#show ip int br
Interface              IP-Address      OK? Method Status                Protocol
Ethernet0/0            unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
Ethernet0/1            unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
Ethernet0/2            unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
Ethernet0/3            unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
Ethernet1/0            unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
Ethernet1/1            unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
Ethernet1/2            unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
Ethernet1/3            unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
Serial2/0              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial2/1              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial2/2              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial2/3              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial3/0              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial3/1              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial3/2              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial3/3              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Without the keepalive flag all interfaces that aren't admin down always show up/up.

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root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/iol/bin# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/unetlab/addons/iol/lib /opt/unetlab/addons/iol/bin/i86bi-linux-l2-adventerprise-15.1b.bin 1
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Switch>show ip int br
Interface              IP-Address      OK? Method Status                Protocol
Ethernet0/0            unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
Ethernet0/1            unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
Ethernet0/2            unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
Ethernet0/3            unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
Ethernet1/0            unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
Ethernet1/1            unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
Ethernet1/2            unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
Ethernet1/3            unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
Serial2/0              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial2/1              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial2/2              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial2/3              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial3/0              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial3/1              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial3/2              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Serial3/3              unassigned      YES unset  administratively down down
Is there a way to pass this argument when launching IOL images in eve-ng ui?

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Re: Launch IOL in eve-ng with keepalive enabled

Post by Uldis (UD) » Sun Jun 16, 2019 11:15 pm

Actually it is just visual stuff and non working.
This probably can work only IOL to IOL
but as the EVE is multivendor tool, this "feature" obviously will not work qemu node to IOL..
So i dont see big reason such to be added in the EVE.
And as i know need spcific IOL which would support such.

Uldis

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