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Re: Getting a BGP table in to a lab

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Thu Apr 21 12:07:11 2005

In message <[email protected]>, 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