[80030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting a BGP table in to a lab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Apr 21 12:06:25 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:34:46 +1200."
<4266F526.6050803@daork.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:05:48 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <4266F526.6050803@daork.net>, Nathan Ward writes:
>
>I'm trying to come up with a way to get a full BGP routing table in to
>my lab.
>I'm not really fussed about keeping it up to date, so a snapshot is fine.
>At the moment, I'm thinking about spending a few hours hacking together
>a BGP daemon in perl to peer with and record a table from a production
>router, disconnect, and then start peering with lab routers.
>
If all you want is a snapshot of a BGP table at some point in time,
could you use the routeviews archives? See
http://www.routeviews.org for details.
--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
