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Re: soBGP deployment

  • From: bmanning
  • Date: Tue May 24 00:30:29 2005

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:06:23PM -0400, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> I suspect the right thing to do is to ask why soBGP and sBGP
> >> have failed?
> > Or maybe, jut maybe, because we've never had the tools to deploy
> > it.
> 
> actually, we had a small workshop with sbgp tools at the last
> eugene nanog.  perhaps it's time for another?  bill, can you host
> at he next nanog, as it is on your turf?

	sure...  point me in the right direction :)

> but, of course, for real deployment, those tools, built for *bsd
> and linux, would limit initial deployment to those running pc-based
> routers.  to go futher, we would need support from juniper and
> other vendors.

	yes... but it is possible to get the ISP engineering 
	crews to "kick the tyres" w/ generic platforms.  
	
> i receive a bgp announcement from a new peer, but the announcement
> was originated two weeks ago (shockers!  a stable route); was the
> asserted path to my new peer valid when the announcement was
> originated two weeks ago?  once your mind starts down such paranoid
> paths, the void opens before one's eyes.

	surrender!
> 
> randy