[39170] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Global BGP - 2001-06-23 - Vendor X's statement...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A. Steenbergen)
Wed Jun 27 13:44:04 2001
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:43:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:38:28PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> How about if there was a tool you could run against a BGP speaker
> which sent a series of deliberately pathological and bogus updates,
> and logged the behaviour of the box under test?
>
> I haven't heard anybody say that vendor X, Y or Z are refusing to
> fix bugs when they are pointed out to them (quite the contrary).
> The trick would seem to be to report the bugs before they are found
> in the wild.
>
> What BGP acceptance tests do people currently run against prospective
> vendors' hardware?
QA Robot
http://advanced.comms.agilent.com/qarobot/
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