RE: Global BGP - 2001-06-23 - Vendor X's statement...

["Chance Whaley" <chance () dreamscope com>]

Yes. It can also be configured to do a variety of other things, and send
all sorts of malformed information. It just takes time, patience, skill,
and desire to configure it to do so.

It also happens to be how some vendors, and providers, involved in this
debacle confirmed the issue.

.chance

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> Joe Abley
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:01 PM
> To: Richard A. Steenbergen
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: Global BGP - 2001-06-23 - Vendor X's statement...
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:43:35PM -0400, Richard A.
> Steenbergen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:38:28PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> > > What BGP acceptance tests do people currently run against
> prospective
> > > vendors' hardware?
> >
> > QA Robot
> >
> > http://advanced.comms.agilent.com/qarobot/
>
> Does that expose the RFC3065 issue if you run it against vendor C's
> implementations?
>
>
> Joe