QARobot has good full BGP conformance testing and a language called QBOL that gives you scripting control. But it's not a line-rate oriented product, for that you'd want RouterTester or Ixia. Since the QOSnetics acquisition, they've been gradually migrating functionality from QArobot to RouterTester. Take a look at Ixia www.ixiacom.com as well, they also have BGP4 emulation software. -Lane
-----Original Message----- From: Dave Parkin [mailto:parkin@icrf.icnet.uk] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 2:15 PM To: Irwin Lazar Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: BGP testing?
QOSnetics was acquired by HP last year: http://www.hp.com/pressrel/sep99/20sep99h.htm and is now part of Agilent. Seems the 'QA Robot' is the result: http://advanced.comms.agilent.com/qarobot/
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Irwin Lazar Sent: 18 November 2000 14:54 To: 'Timothy Brown'; 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: RE: BGP testing?
Have a look at http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/DCM20000510S0017
It is a lab test performed by the old "Data Communications" magazine on the Juniper M40. In it, they detail how they used a tool from QOSnetics that was capable of generating up 520,000 unique routes (with a /22 prefix).
Irwin
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-----Original Message----- From: Timothy Brown [mailto:tcb@ga.prestige.net] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 7:17 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: BGP testing?
Hey folks,
Does anyone have a script or a series thereof to do large-scale BGP testing? I'm looking for scripts that will generate and nail down several hundred networks of varying sizes, and/or fake peering relationships with a similar purpose, and/or do things that don't meet the BGP protocol standards, etc.
Thanks for any responses.
Tim