RE: free network monitoring/management tools

2002-11-18 Thread Gustavus, Wayne
Joshua, Hate to give the std answer, but I suggest a review of the archives over the past 2 months--this thread was just recently re-hashed. Also, there was a presentation on Managing IP Networks with Free Software at NANOG 26. Check it out here: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/ppt/stephen.pdf

RE: Big meetings should never be held at noon!

2002-06-26 Thread Gustavus, Wayne
Jane, Couldn't you just use a full BGP feed from a provider and configure your inbound route-map/policy with the necessary parameters to obtain the part of the BGP table that you want? Or if this is just to populate something in a lab with a specific set of BGP info, you could obtain a copy of

RE: how is cold-potato done?

2002-06-26 Thread Gustavus, Wayne
Ultimately there won't be any ties, since BGP will eventually have to select a best path. If necessary, the decision will come down to RID. If the metrics really are the same then theoretically it doesn't matter which path it takes. If it does matter, you will have to modify your policy to