Testing BGP with real UPDATEs

Tue Sep 17 18:39:42 UTC 2002

If you are testing the receipt of routes and inbound filtering, I just block
all outbound advertisements and connect to an ISP or one of my border
routers.
That way you can test your filters and inbound access-lists and manipulate
the BGP tables before putting the router into production.
Hope that helps some,

	-=Vandy=-

-----Original Message-----
From: Sathya Perla [mailto:sperla at netplane.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 4:12 AM
To: 'nanog at merit.edu'
Subject: Testing BGP with real UPDATEs

Hi,
How is a BGP implementation tested with real Internet routing data (BGP
UPDATEs)? Are there any experimental/test networks that can be connected to
for testing a BGP implementation?

Thanks,
-Sathya