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Re: RANCID script for monitoring the routes received from peers.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Thu Mar 8 08:16:00 2012

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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:02:11 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
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On 08/03/2012 10:47, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> 	Finally, another way to do this that could spare the CPU on on
> 	your routers if you run this often would be to setup a peer running
> 	Quagga (or BIRD) on a Linux/BSD host and run the monitoring there.

that will only provide the calculated prefix entries from the RIB, not the
received-routes from each host.  I.e. it's not necessarily going to be 100%
accurate.

Nick



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