[4915] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Kilmer)
Tue Oct 1 20:54:54 1996
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 20:45:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Henry Kilmer <hank@rem.com>
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: Henry Kilmer <hank@rem.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610012006.QAA03238@jekyll.piermont.com>
Perry E. Metzger writes:
>
>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...
If you read my message, I said "yes" to testing the configs prior to
going live with them. Unfortunately our testing does not turn up all
of the problems we encounter on our backbone since it is very
difficult to generate an accurate environment to simulate our
backbone.
>Did you have a backout plan in place to rapidly fall back in case of
>failure?
Of course.
-Hank
