Looking for a bgp stressing tool

Ingo Flaschberger if at xip.at
Fri Apr 18 11:13:10 UTC 2008


Dear Pierre,

> We are currently trying to migrate our AS from Linux/quagga to
> NanoBSD/openbgpd.
>
> We want to validate our model. Please find below the test platform we use:
>
> __________      __________     __________
> |          |    |          |   |          |
> | router A |    | router B |   | router C |
> |__________|    |__________|   |__________|
>      \             |           /
>       \            |          /
>     ___\___________|_________/__
>    |                            |
>    |    router Nanobsd Test     |
>    |____________________________|
>
> - routers A, B and C got one third of the internet routes each (82Kroutes).
> - routers A, B and C announce those routes to the nanobsd running an
> openbgpd
>
> We want to stress the nanobsd router to see how many packets/s it could
> treat, in a quite true real situation.
>
> 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

Kind regards,
 	Ingo Flaschberger




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