Alex had spent three months building it. The network topology for Project Chimera was a monster—over 200 nodes, a mix of Cisco, Juniper, and Arista devices, stitched together with complex BGP routing and MPLS VPNs. It was the kind of virtual lab that could train an army of engineers or simulate a small country’s internet infrastructure.
No. Not like this.
“It’s like building a spaceship in a broom closet,” Alex muttered, staring at the screen at 2 a.m. eve-ng pro license
But then Alex thought about the last outage at the logistics company. A misconfigured route had grounded twenty delivery trucks for six hours. If Alex’s lab was based on a cracked, unstable version of EVE-NG, the simulation could fail silently. A missed bug. A hidden memory leak. A routing loop that wouldn’t show up because the emulator was too hobbled to render it. Alex had spent three months building it
There was just one problem. The free community edition of EVE-NG was gasping for air. But then Alex thought about the last outage