Re: Router Servers in a lab

[Barrie Jones <bjones () digisle net>]

I have never tried this, but I forwarded your mail to my coworker who has,
and here is what he had to say:

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interesting... i did try zebra but couldn't find a way to have it load
saved routes, only dump them.

i like mrtd better anyway, since it has the bgpsim tool.  it allows you
to withdraw and announce routes to simulate flapping.  has frequency,
jitter, all that fun stuff.
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(see www.mrtd.net)

mike harrison wrote:

> > route tables and save them to a file.  Then have something, possibly a
> > route server, import this file and inject these routes into my lab
> > network.  Any ideas/suggestions?  Is this possible without having a
> > live BGP feed into my lab network?
>
> This would be easy to do with Zebra and a unix boxen.
> Zebra is a BGP routing deamon similiar in function to GateD.
> Fairly easy to setup (ie:  uses cisco-ish commands),
> and a few lines of perl with a dump or log dump
> could easily recreate the world as you want it.
> see: www.zebra.org