[j-nsp] How to load a lot of prefixes

Leigh Porter leigh.porter at ukbroadband.com
Wed Feb 20 12:57:45 EST 2008


Notepad can handle 25000 lines?

;-0

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Leigh


Keegan.Holley at sungard.com wrote:
> There are several products that can generate routes for testing depending 
> on your budget.  IXIA devices for example will do this and more.  I wanted 
> to the same thing a few months ago and I ended ip logging into a few route 
> servers and outputting a sh route/sh ip route to a text file.  Then I just 
> used notepad to add the commands to configure the routes as static routes 
> and pasted the result into the router.  This is no way to get the full 
> table, but I got about 25,000 routes (until I got bored).  If you really 
> want it to look like the real table you can add the routes to different 
> routers and advertise them from actual ISP AS numbers and/or modify the AS 
> path using with random policies.  I did this with cisco boxes so YMMV.
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> Keegan
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> "wang dong bei" <wang.dong.bei at gmail.com> 
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> Hi talented minds,
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> I want to do some testing with BGP and I need to inject a lots of routes,
> preferably the entire Internet routing table, into some of the routers of 
> an
> isolated lab. My initial approach is to capture the "show route bgp" 
> output
> from one of my routers and massage the data into the "set routing-options
> static prefix....." and load everything into my testing routers. However,
> the script is more difficult to write, the result is full of errors, and
> when I load the config, it somehow hang my terminal sessions.
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> So are there anyways to quickly populate the routing table of my testing
> routers by administrative configuration means?
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> thanks for your help.
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> regards,
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> dong bei
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