Looking for a bgp stressing tool

Bruce M. Simpson bms at FreeBSD.org
Fri Apr 18 13:07:09 UTC 2008


Ingo Flaschberger wrote:
>>
>> So we are looking for a tool that inject and verify packet with faked
>> IPs. We want to generate fake traffic between A-B A-C B-C in both 
>> directions.
>> The aim is to evaluate the routing capacity of openbgpd/freebsd.
>>
>> We currently didn't find any tool that fit our needs. Do you have any
>> suggestion ?
>
> sbgp
>
> you can script this bgp listener/sender.
>
> is hard to find, as it was in the mrtd router package, which is "dead" 
> now.
> http://www.filewatcher.com/m/mrtd-2.2.2a.tgz.871976.0.0.html

The regression test framework in XORP is driven by a set of Python 
scripts, I believe it is fully scriptable.

It might also be worthwhile adding BGP message support to PCS:
    http://pcs.sourceforge.net/

I have a lot of patches to go into PCS, gnn@ is pretty busy right now.

cheers
BMS


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