dan wells

I need a network to do my implementation and testing of my Masters project. I created a virtual network as a backbone to base my project on. It’s a very simple network, partly based on how the Dwesa test network is implemented. Dwesa is a rural community in the Eastern Cape where many developmental projects using ICTs are researched.

The virtual network that I constructed has three ‘levels’. At the lowest level there is a typical ‘workstation’ which can be any PC, with any operating system, at a site. That workstation sends packets destined for other networks through its router. The router sits at the edge of the site and passes packets in that have been sent to it or routes packets for other networks to the access concentrator. The access concentrator either sends those packets to the Internet or to another site via their routers. The routers and the access concentrator are using FreeBSD 6.3.

For more detailed information see the document on my Virtual Test Network. Any feedback about how I’ve set this up would be great.