Getting a BGP table in to a lab

Thu Apr 21 16:05:48 UTC 2005

In message <4266F526.6050803 at 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