[129171] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did your BGP crash today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leen Besselink)
Sat Aug 28 07:10:01 2010
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:09:47 +0200
From: Leen Besselink <leen@consolejunkie.net>
To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20100828093942.GA29779@mx.ytti.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 08/28/2010 11:39 AM, Saku Ytti wrote:
> On (2010-08-28 18:20 +0900), Randy Bush wrote:
>
>
>> a bgp regression suite would not have caught this as it was not a
>> repeat. but it sure would be useful to implementors.
>>
> Naturally 'proving' that non-trivial software works is practically
> impossible. But stating what non-existing test-suite would or would not
> have covered is not a topic I'm particularly interested to engage.
>
>
>
I suggest the test-tool has 2 bgp-sessions and tests if what it put in
did or did not come out on the otherside and in what shape or form.
There are already atleast 2 projects which have BGP-code which could
probably be adapted:
http://code.google.com/p/exabgp/
http://code.google.com/p/bgpsimple/
Can I suggest a fuzzer as wel ?
