05-29-2013 02:35 PM - edited 03-04-2019 08:03 PM
I think that title should suffice. I'm in charge of testing candidate vendors for WAN service, and need to confirm that our vendors will support a rather large BGP table. We're talking about a sufficiently large table size that I won't start to think about statics or loopbacks to populate it. That said, how could I go about generating thousands of BGP prefixes to seed an isolated environment?
We don't have any issues with our current environment, which simply shares our global table across the candidate carrier's network; however, I would like to design a scenario that will allow for multiple concurrent tests that maintain isolation via VRFs.
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05-30-2013 02:01 PM
Michael,
Have a look at IxNetwork http://www.ixiacom.com/products/network_test/applications/ixnetwork/specifications/index.php
Tony
05-29-2013 06:48 PM
We use an IXIA box for this type of testing. has the added benefit of being able to generate a load as well which you might find useful.
Tony
05-30-2013 11:06 AM
I'll have to investigate this option, Tony. My lab actually uses IxChariot for traffic loading. Nice software! What specific product do you have in mind?
Thanks for your suggestion!
05-30-2013 02:01 PM
Michael,
Have a look at IxNetwork http://www.ixiacom.com/products/network_test/applications/ixnetwork/specifications/index.php
Tony
05-30-2013 05:19 PM
I took a look through the IxNetwork interface at work today. Looks like it'll do the trick. Thank you again, Tony.
Ixia gets another big thumbs-up from me!
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