Re: how well will IDRP nee BGP work?

Bill Manning <bmanning@isi.edu> Tue, 22 August 1995 14:49 UTC

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From: Bill Manning <bmanning@isi.edu>
Subject: Re: how well will IDRP nee BGP work?
To: curtis@ans.net
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 07:35:19 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: sob@newdev.harvard.edu, bmanning@isi.edu, tli@cisco.com, bgp@ans.net, dhaskin@baynetworks.com
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> > > Upload config, run a sed script, download config
> > 
> > assuming your router supports these operations
> > 
> Just run a perl program on the router itself.  ;-)
> 

I've seen this before.  When I did VTAM sysgens for my old IBM SNA
network.  I think Sue has the right idea, but I don't think it
goes far enough.  I would like to see this process be fully dynamic,
since I won't know, a priora, when my provider will change my prefix
out from underneath me or how often that will happen.

-- 
--bill