Re: Did your BGP crash today?

[Leen Besselink <leen () consolejunkie net>]

On 08/28/2010 11:39 AM, Saku Ytti wrote:
> On (2010-08-28 18:20 +0900), Randy Bush wrote:
>
>   
> > a bgp regression suite would not have caught this as it was not a
> > repeat.  but it sure would be useful to implementors.
> >     
> Naturally 'proving' that non-trivial software works is practically
> impossible. But stating what non-existing test-suite would or would not
> have covered is not a topic I'm particularly interested to engage.
>
>
>   
I suggest the test-tool has 2 bgp-sessions and tests if what it put in
did or did not come out on the otherside and in what shape or form.

There are already atleast 2 projects which have BGP-code which could
probably be adapted:
http://code.google.com/p/exabgp/
http://code.google.com/p/bgpsimple/

Can I suggest a fuzzer as wel ?