[4910] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Oct 1 16:24:15 1996
To: Henry Kilmer <hank@rem.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 1996 15:37:31 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 16:06:43 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Henry Kilmer writes:
> >(b) Possible evidence for Metzger's cowboyism theory? Were these BGP
> >configs tested before they were implemented?
>
> Yes. And it wasn't the configs that were wrong. It was a BGP related
> Cisco bug.
Did you test the configs in a lab first? Thats the best way to find
these sorts of things -- in test...
Did you have a backout plan in place to rapidly fall back in case of
failure?
Perry
