Re: Getting a BGP table in to a lab

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

In message <4266F526.6050803 () daork net>, Nathan Ward writes:
> 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.

If all you want is a snapshot of a BGP table at some point in time, 
could you use the routeviews archives?  See
http://www.routeviews.org for details.

                --Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb