On Feb 16, Andreas Voellmy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to learn about BGP and just ran across RPSL. I've seen > www.radb.net and know that lots of people are registering their policies > here. Are organizations also using these RPSL policies to compile > configuration files for their routers (via RtConfig)? Or do they just > maintain their RPSL policies and router configurations separately? A few sites do, but I do not think there are many considering how hard it is to express using RPSL a real complete configuration for a whole network.
Since RtConfig used to be unreliable on modern Linux systems (I do not know if the last release has been improved in this regard) I wrote my own tool which generates as-path and prefix-list filters (and uRPF ACLs) for customers and peers using the IRR data and local configuration files listing the neighbors: http://www.linux.it/~md/rpsltool-1.2.tgz My opinion is that maintaining an aut-num object for the purpose of generating your own configuration is pointless, but maintaining proper route and as-set objects will greatly help your peers to build their filters. (Yes, another of these situations where your actions will only benefit the rest of the Internet and vice versa). -- ciao, Marco
