[4913] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Tue Oct 1 16:56:25 1996
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 16:37:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@cic.net>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
cc: Henry Kilmer <hank@rem.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610012006.QAA03238@jekyll.piermont.com>
On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 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...
No matter how rigorous the test in a lab is, there are bugs and failure modes
that cannot be discovered until real traffic passes through it.
I assume Sprint got bitten by one of these...
-dorian
