BGP Experiment

Thu Jan 24 15:49:46 UTC 2019

> From: James Jun
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 7:02 PM
> 
> Agreed;  Please resume the experiment.  We're all operators here, and we
> MUST have confidence that BGP speakers on our network are compliant with
> protocol specification.  Experiments like this are opportunities for a
real-life
> validation of how our devices handle messages that are out of the norm,
and
> help us identify issues.
> 
> Kudos to researchers by the way, for sending courtesy announcements in
> advance, and testing against some common platforms available to them
> (Cisco, Quagga & BIRD) prior to the experiment.
> 
This actually makes me thing that it might be worthwhile including these
types of test to the regression testing suite.
So that every time we evaluate new code or vendor we don't only test for
functionality, performance and scalability, but also for robustness 
i.e. sending a whole heap of trash down the sockets which are accessible
form the Internet (via the iACL holes), to limit the scope of the test.

Rather than relying on experiments to notify us the hard way that something
is not right.

adam