Hi I'm using mrtd for this purpose exactly. To begin with, I wrote small PERL script (route_stoa.pl) which takes "show ip bgp" output of cisco router (default free, found in the internet) and convert it to mrtd ASCII format. Then I patched the route_atob (route_atob.c) of mrtd package to read this file. I used sbgp to inject the full table into my router. Assuming that the "show ip bgp" dump file is ASproc.pl (this is actually the name I found it), the command should be (after trimming ASproc so only pure table exist): gunzip --stdout ASproc.pl | route_stoa.pl -i stdin -o stdout | route_atob -i stdin -o stdout | sbgp -i stdin .... Good luck Best Regards, Yosi Yarchi KereniX Data-Aware Optical NetworksTM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Yosi Yarchi http://www.kerenix.com Phone: +972-3-9050783 Mobile: 972-58-512783 Fax: +972-3-9347720 mailto:yosi_yarchi@kerenix.com

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-----Original Message----- From: mike harrison [mailto:meuon@highertech.net] Sent: Wed, April 11, 2001 6:27 AM To: Barrie Jones Cc: Perry Jannette; Nanog1 Subject: Re: Router Servers in a lab

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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)

Downloading.... :) --Thanks