success with tools

Great news and thank you very much for the feedback. I am currently
restructuring peval to make it more general and less gated specific.

Eric M. Carroll (eric at enfm.utcc.utoronto.ca) on January 20:
> Dale suggested this list would be interested in a progress report on
> CA*net's use of the RA code. We have been successful in doing a
> complete configuration run for CA*net using peval, the radbserver and
> a ripe-181 database. This has permitted us to decommission the old
> build system we had in place that dated back to when CA*net used gated
> (it has ciscos now).
> 
> We had some surgery to perform on the code in question, because of the
> gated specific nature of it. As a general, possibly quite obvious
> comment, I would like to suggest that peval and friends produce a
> attributed list instead of a list of values and attributes. gated uses
> the latter, but cisco uses the former. Its trivial to distribute, less
> easy to invert, especially if you cannot assume that things are all
> grouped. I would also like to suggest that the tools be a bit more
> oriented around a policy stage with a router-independent notation and
> a configuration build stage.
> 
> We mostly just focused on getting what was available up right now. But
> I have alot I want to automate with cisco generation, and I have an
> interest in looking at this package for other types of routers that
> look nothing like gated at all, and would need to drive, say, expect
> scripts.  Anyone remember Proteons? :-)
> 
> Our next efforts will be to introduce real localpref configuration by
> AS or route into our process. Also, we are looking into what it will
> take to validate BGP path components with this package.
> 
> Eric Carroll	University of Toronto Network & Operations Services
> 		Supervisor, External Networking Facilities Management
> 		CA*net Network Engineering


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