Rob: Thank-you for the kind comments about GateD. I will forward them to other GateD developers, especially Jeff Honig who is now at BSDI. Netstar is GateD Consortium member. We have been jointly working with Netstar on adding additional features to bgp. John Scudder has also been helping with this effort to enhance GateD. I think you will find the Netstar engineers very insightful as we have. A few of the engineers will be present for a technical discussion during nanog. Their additions to the gated product have enhanced the existing gated package. The next release of GateD will have this new software. Other additions to the next releases of gated will be: - re-written ospf to reduce the memory requirements, - gii - a cisco like command interface, - utilities for bgp monitoring, and - test tools. If anyone is interest in GateD membership or redistribution licenses, I encourage you to contact me. If you are interested in additional information on Netstar, I can also refer you to Netstar people as well. Please use either: gated@gated.merit.edu or skh@merit.edu. www.gated.org or www.merit.edu I'll be glad to give additional pointers or phone numbers to individuals privately. Sue Hares skh@merit.edu Technical Point of Contact Merit GateD Consortium