RE: BGP testing?

[Lane Patterson <lpatterson () equinix com>]

QARobot has good full BGP conformance testing and a
language called QBOL that gives you scripting control.
But it's not a line-rate oriented product, for that you'd
want RouterTester or Ixia.  Since the QOSnetics 
acquisition, they've been gradually migrating functionality
from QArobot to RouterTester.

Take a look at Ixia www.ixiacom.com as well, they also
have BGP4 emulation software.

-Lane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Parkin [mailto:parkin () icrf icnet uk]
> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 2:15 PM
> To: Irwin Lazar
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: RE: BGP testing?
>
>
>
> QOSnetics was acquired by HP last year:
> http://www.hp.com/pressrel/sep99/20sep99h.htm and is now part 
> of Agilent.
> Seems the 'QA Robot' is the result:
> http://advanced.comms.agilent.com/qarobot/
>
> Dave
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog () merit edu 
> [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> > Irwin Lazar
> > Sent: 18 November 2000 14:54
> > To: 'Timothy Brown'; 'nanog () merit edu'
> > Subject: RE: BGP testing?
> >
> >
> >
> > Have a look at 
> http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/DCM20000510S0017
> > It is a lab test performed by the old "Data Communications"
> > magazine on the
> > Juniper M40.  In it, they detail how they used a tool from 
> QOSnetics that
> > was capable of generating up 520,000 unique routes (with a 
> /22 prefix).
> > Irwin
> >
> > ------
> > Irwin Lazar, Senior Consultant
> > The Burton Group - www.tbg.com
> > ilazar () tbg com
> > 703-742-9659 (office)
> > 703-402-4119(cell)
> > The Ultimate Resource For Network Architects
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Timothy Brown [mailto:tcb () ga prestige net]
> > > Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 7:17 PM
> > > To: nanog () merit edu
> > > Subject: BGP testing?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hey folks,
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a script or a series thereof to do
> > > large-scale BGP testing?
> > > I'm looking for scripts that will generate and nail down
> > > several hundred
> > > networks of varying sizes, and/or fake peering relationships
> > > with a similar
> > > purpose, and/or do things that don't meet the BGP protocol
> > > standards, etc.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any responses.
> > >
> > > Tim