[c-nsp] Testing New BGP Provider

[Mitch Stoner]

Whats the best way to go about testing a new service provider connection
with BGP on a production router? Should I put the new connection in a VRF
to receive the global routing table and make sure things work as expected?
Or do I simply filter all routes initially and slowly permit a few
individual routes to be sure things look correct? Router is an ASR9000. What
do others typically do?

Thanks!