Hi, Zebra is outdated, the successor is called quagga (at least on debian) and is capable of providing most of the vendor C BGP features, though MD5 autentication is still experimental I think. We used to push a handful of BGP full feeds on our quagga router and it didn't stumble a bit. OSPF also works quite well, btw. Florian

-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Morris Sent: Donnerstag, 21. April 2005 02:50 To: swm@emanon.com; 'Nathan Ward'; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Getting a BGP table in to a lab

Forget part of my reply here... I thought someone was posting from the CCIE forum stuff I do.

So disregard the lack-of-caffeine-induced, retarded command about no router being able to support a full feed. :)

My apologies....

Zebra is still a good idea though!

Scott

-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Morris Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 8:42 PM To: 'Nathan Ward'; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Getting a BGP table in to a lab

None of the routers that are tested in the lab are capable of supporting a full BGP feed....

If you just want to play with BGP stuff, you can use Zebra (unix) or go to www.nantech.com and get their BGP4WIN program.

That may help you a bit more.

Scott

-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Nathan Ward Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 8:35 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Getting a BGP table in to a lab

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.

Am I reinventing a wheel here?

-- Nathan Ward