16 Month Study of Convergence
Instrument the Internet
- Inject routes into geographically and topologically diverse provider BGP peering sessions (Mae-West, Japan, Michigan, London)
- Periodically fail and change these routes (i.e. send withdraws or new attributes)
- Time events using ICMP echos and NTP synchronized BGP “routeviews” monitoring machines (also http gets)
- Write lots of Perl scripts
- Wait two years (and 250,000 faults)