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Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem"
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian () cic net>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 16:37:51 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Henry Kilmer writes:(b) Possible evidence for Metzger's cowboyism theory? Were these BGP configs tested before they were implemented?Yes. And it wasn't the configs that were wrong. It was a BGP related Cisco bug.Did you test the configs in a lab first? Thats the best way to find these sorts of things -- in test...
No matter how rigorous the test in a lab is, there are bugs and failure modes that cannot be discovered until real traffic passes through it. I assume Sprint got bitten by one of these... -dorian - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem" William Allen Simpson (Sep 30)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem" Marc Slemko (Sep 30)
- Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem" Bradley Dunn (Oct 01)
- Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem" Henry Kilmer (Oct 01)
- Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem" Perry E. Metzger (Oct 01)
- Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem" Dorian R. Kim (Oct 01)
- Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem" Michael Dillon (Oct 01)
- Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem" Joseph Malcolm (Oct 03)
- Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem" Michael Dillon (Oct 03)
- Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem" David Carmean (Oct 03)
- Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem" Bradley Dunn (Oct 01)
- Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem" Henry Kilmer (Oct 01)
- Re: "Basic BGP configuration problem" Henry Kilmer (Oct 01)