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