[129215] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did your BGP crash today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Mangin)
Sun Aug 29 15:50:39 2010
From: Thomas Mangin <thomas.mangin@exa-networks.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <D338D1613B32624285BB321A5CF3DB25103718925C@ginga.ai.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:50:26 +0200
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> It seems that creating a worst case BGP test suite for all kinds of =
nastiness (in light of the recent RIPE thing) might not be a bad idea - =
so that we can all test the implementation ourselves before we deploy =
new code.
Normally those things are done by vendors - that what we pay them good =
money for software update and support.
You need a fully mesh network of all the vendors as it would seems that =
you need to check the outgoing packet as well as making sure the router =
is as well not chocking on the packet.
Definitively no rocket science, still quite some work for something =
which should not be the end-user's problem.
Thomas
