A Flexible and Lightweight BGP Route Injector to Multiple Peers

Abstract

The paper proposes and implements a flexible and lightweight BGP injector (mBGPInjector) that can announce both offline and real-time BGP routes to multiple peers with various filtering options. mBGP Injector also supports dynamical BGP configuration changes, such as online bringing a peer down or up, applying custom filtering rules and announcing or withdrawing arbitrary BGP routes. The implemented mBGP Injector is a lightweight perl program that consists of a few functions to read, analyze and direct BGP routes to corresponding connected BGP peers in a large size of network (eBGP or iBGP). Experiments with our mBGP Injector tool satisfy the requirements we need for research and education and demonstrate effectiveness under realistic workloads. In addition, we designed and tested the tool in Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) environment, where researchers and educators can take advantage of shared resource request files to repeat the same experiments without involvement of ponderous settings and configurations.