[36573] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Router Servers in a lab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barrie Jones)
Tue Apr 10 22:28:41 2001
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:41:44 -0700
From: Barrie Jones <bjones@digisle.net>
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To: mike harrison <meuon@highertech.net>
Cc: Perry Jannette <perry.jannette@usa.net>, Nanog1 <nanog@merit.edu>
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I have never tried this, but I forwarded your mail to my coworker who has,
and here is what he had to say:
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interesting... i did try zebra but couldn't find a way to have it load
saved routes, only dump them.
i like mrtd better anyway, since it has the bgpsim tool. it allows you
to withdraw and announce routes to simulate flapping. has frequency,
jitter, all that fun stuff.
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(see www.mrtd.net)
mike harrison wrote:
> > route tables and save them to a file. Then have something, possibly a
> > route server, import this file and inject these routes into my lab
> > network. Any ideas/suggestions? Is this possible without having a
> > live BGP feed into my lab network?
>
> This would be easy to do with Zebra and a unix boxen.
> Zebra is a BGP routing deamon similiar in function to GateD.
> Fairly easy to setup (ie: uses cisco-ish commands),
> and a few lines of perl with a dump or log dump
> could easily recreate the world as you want it.
> see: www.zebra.org
