Hello Bird Team, 

I am trying to modify the BIRD implementation of RIP with my internet draft: Direct Knowledge Extension to Distance Vector Routing. I want to make sure its working. 

I have done the first implementation of it, but now the question of testing arises. 

My current plan was to litter the code with log statements, run Bird inside the CORE routing emulator and then compare the results to the standard BIRD RIP implementation. 

 

I am wondering if there is a better way to test this though. I found this repository: birdlab · master · labs / bird-tools · GitLab . 

How likely do you think it is that I will get this to work? I have implemented my changes on the 2.17 branch, not the 3.x. So I don't even know if its compatible with the testing framework. 

In general I would love if I could get some pointers on how to verify and debug my implementation. How do you guys test your changes?

Best regards

Sebastian Müller