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NANOG Meeting Presentation Abstract

Tutorial: BGP Configuration From the IRR
Meeting: NANOG19
Date / Time: 2000-06-11 1:30pm - 5:00pm
Room: Enchantment A & B
Presenters: Speakers:

Cengiz Alaettinoglu, ISI

Cengiz Alaettinoglu works on the Routing Arbiter project at the USC Information Sciences Institute. He co-chairs the IETF Routing Policy System WG, which defined the Routing Policy Specification Language along with the protocols to enable a distributed, secure routing policy system.
Abstract: This tutorial introduces the Internet Routing Registry (IRR), the Routing Policy Specification Language, (RPSL) and the RtConfig router configuration tool. We explain how to register and query routing policy objects in the IRR. After a brief introduction to routing policies, we discuss RPSL, the language for specifying Internet routing policies in the IRR. We explain several policy examples currently practiced in the Internet and specify them using RPSL. These include as-path prepending, setting preferences and other metrics based on the community attribute, and access lists based on prefix and as-path expressions.



RtConfig is the focus of this tutorial. RtConfig can configure Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, Gated and RSd routers with BGP policies. The amount of configuration it performs is controllable; hence, the amount of information that needs to be published in the IRR is controllable as well. RtConfig can be used to only generate prefix access lists from the IRR, or to generate full-blown router configurations.
Files: None.
Sponsors: None.

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