1 Oct
1996
1 Oct
'96
4:37 p.m.
On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Henry Kilmer writes:
(b) Possible evidence for Metzger's cowboyism theory? Were these BGP configs tested before they were implemented?
Yes. And it wasn't the configs that were wrong. It was a BGP related Cisco bug.
Did you test the configs in a lab first? Thats the best way to find these sorts of things -- in test...
No matter how rigorous the test in a lab is, there are bugs and failure modes that cannot be discovered until real traffic passes through it. I assume Sprint got bitten by one of these... -dorian