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Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements


From: Ben Maddison via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:58:49 +0200

Hi Randy,

On 08/17, Randy Bush wrote:
for junos, i build the prefix list externally and push config.  sad to
say, the code is so old ('90s) that it's pearl and uses `peval`.  i
should fix but (copious spare time) == 0.

Spare time must be > 0 if you're willing to wait for peval to finish ;-)

originally i tried to also build and push for cisco ios classic, but it
died in the push.  breathe on the router and it reset bgp sessions.  i
gather from heas that things are better these years.

Better, but not good (or even tolerable). There is a reason I didn't
provide an example of doing this kind of thing on IOS classic/XE.

i guess i really should have a go at doing it for arcos, but ...

The thing that EOS and JUNOS have in common that allows this to work is
a mechanism to store config state outside the main "running config".

In JUNOS that's the ephemeral DBs, in EOS they call it "URL based
import" for as-path and prefix lists.

If ArcOS doesn't already have something similar, I'd get it on the list.

Cheers,

Ben

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