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Re: Linux Router KIT

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Stuart)
Fri Oct 30 00:31:16 1998

To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
cc: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>, nanog@merit.edu,
        list@inet-access.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:55:16 EST."
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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:16:24 -0800
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>

> I should fire up a copy of gated 4.x and see how gii
> performs, but its kind of a drag not being allowed to use the newer code
> on anything but personal testing/development systems.

I contributed some of the "show bgp" GII code to gated, and when I
used it on Digital's border routers (Alphas running Digital UNIX) it
was invaluable. "netstat -nr" is nice, but looking into the routing
process and seeing what choices were available was invaluable in
answering some BGP peering questions. 

Stephen
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