BGP about ostinato HOT 9 CLOSED

Looking forward to this feature.

@ylucki: Can you please elaborate on your use case for BGP? Specifically, do 
you want to create a BGP stream like any other ostinato stream or are you 
looking for BGP protocol emulation so that Ostinato acts as a BGP peer to a DUT?

Its both actually.

Intention is to be able to use Ostinato as a BGP peer to a DUT and to be able 
to pump some BGP data too.

@ylucki: Can you please describe a use-case/test-case that would need you to 
"pump some BGP data"? A BGP stream to pump BGP data would need to be stateful 
(ostinato streams are not stateful today).

I was thinking that "not stateful" would be a blocker for implementing this.

But this is one of the use cases I am targeting to see if can be automated 
using Ostinato :

1. To send Commnity Names over IBGP as well as EBGP and validate on the DUT
2. Send duplicate Community Names over IBGP and EBGP as well to validate on DUT

The initial request for BGP peering could be satisfied on the host by running 
Quagga.  This is a fully featured routing suite, and should satisfy the 
protocol operation.  Having Ostinato control quagga would be easier I think.

Yes, As Srivats mentioned in another thread in the forum, if the interface in 
drone  to control quagga is developed, it would make it possible to use quagga 
for other stateful protocols as well.