"Basic BGP configuration problem"

Tue Oct 1 20:37:51 UTC 1996

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