Re: Getting a BGP table in to a lab

In message <4266F526.6050803@daork.net>, Nathan Ward writes:

I'm trying to come up with a way to get a full BGP routing table in to my lab. I'm not really fussed about keeping it up to date, so a snapshot is fine. At the moment, I'm thinking about spending a few hours hacking together a BGP daemon in perl to peer with and record a table from a production router, disconnect, and then start peering with lab routers.

If all you want is a snapshot of a BGP table at some point in time, could you use the routeviews archives? See http://www.routeviews.org for details. --Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb