You could insert network-LSA and router-LSAs into one of the routes and it
should flood that to its neighbors and so on. With whatever stack you are
using it should be very easy to insert n-LSA and r-LSA. n-LSA can describe
the routers on the network and router will describe the links it has. So you
can design arbitrary topology and insert that topology into one router and
through the flooding process every other router will receive that.

Ofcourse , you have the limitation that the advertising router for the
inserted n-LSAs and r-LSA doesn't exist and hence can't refersh them every
30 minutes. But then within 30 minutes you should be able to check if the
routing table is properly calculated, can it handle large routing table etc.

Alternatively you can look for commerical OPSF test platforms.

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: Mailing List [mailto:OSPFDISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM]On Behalf Of
Johnson, Edward
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:55 PM
To: OSPFDISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
Subject: Route Generator

Hi,

Does anyone know of a program or platform that could be used to generate a
large number of IP routes in an OSPF test bed or lab that consist of a very
small number of routers? I want to create large routing tables to increase
the size of the updates and simulate a large network. Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Ed

Edward Johnson
WAN Engineer
CapitalOne
phone 804-934-7237
page 888-825-2751
cell 804-363-3150
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