"Basic BGP configuration problem"

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Tue Oct 1 20:06:43 UTC 1996


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





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