[45200] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: state of the art in router configuration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Jan 22 00:46:53 2002
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Jennifer Rexford <jrex@research.att.com>
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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 06:44:49 +0100
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>> 1. how do most operators configure their bgp (text editor or some
>> high-level configuration tool)?
>
> I think this varies a lot depending on the network and the type of
> configuration change being made. Some folks work directly at the
> command-line interface (perhaps with some cut-and-paste from previous
> configs, especially for boiler-plate stuff), some use GUIs provided by
> router vendors for some types of config changes, others use their own
> scripts, and still others might use third-party commercial products
> like Orchestream or Goldwiretech.
and some completely generate them from an enterprise database
randy
