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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: peering tools
On Fri, 07 April 2000, Scott Call wrote: > As we (ATG) are about to move into PAIX, SIX, and MAE-East ATM, I wanted > to ask what the members of Nanog used to manage their peering with > others (software wise). Currently we are all Cisco based, but Juniper > and others are also eventualities. > > I've looked at the RtConfig program and it seems like a place to > start, but I get the feeling that this is not the method most use. Most folks configure provider-to-provider BGP peering sessions manually. Fortunately they change fairly infrequently. A few use some automated tools to push and collect router configurations, and macro or script tools like M4 and Perl. Even fewer use RtConfig or other database driven configuration tools. ANS had the closest to fully automated their peering configurations, but they're gone now. The basic problem is most providers have homegrown systems which can't share data with other providers. RPSL/IRRDB are attempts to communicate the information between providers, but generally different providers use very different forms and procedures. Sprint used a completely different method of exchanging information about BGP configutions than Cable&Wireless does. So if you peer with 50 different people, you may have 55 different processes (yes, some providers have more than one process even within their own company). I suspect Randy will explain its not a problem with Verio, but Verio is a exception.
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