If you are testing the receipt of routes and inbound filtering, I just block all outbound advertisements and connect to an ISP or one of my border routers. That way you can test your filters and inbound access-lists and manipulate the BGP tables before putting the router into production. Hope that helps some, -=Vandy=- -----Original Message----- From: Sathya Perla [mailto:sperla@netplane.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 4:12 AM To: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: Testing BGP with real UPDATEs Hi, How is a BGP implementation tested with real Internet routing data (BGP UPDATEs)? Are there any experimental/test networks that can be connected to for testing a BGP implementation? Thanks, -Sathya