On Jan 8, 2019, at 12:06 PM, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:48:46 +0100, niels=nanog@bakker.net said:
After seeing this initial result I'm wondering why the researchers couldn't set up their own sandbox first before breaking code on the internet. I believe FRR is a free download and comes with GNU autoconf.
Perhaps you'd like to supply the researchers (and us) with a *complete* list of all BGP-speaking software in use on the Internet? (Personally, I'd never heard of FRR before)
Yeah, I think it also gets complicated as some of us also have our own internal BGP speakers as well. Taking MRT files from route-views or RIPE RIS and replaying them is certainly helpful to simulate certain events. I’ve found a lot of interesting “new attribute” experiments when I had a poorly written MRT parser that would trigger periodically when something new hit the internet. (FRR is descendent of Zebra/Quagga world) - Jared