[161138] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP RIB Collection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy)
Tue Feb 26 22:52:02 2013
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:51:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Randy <randy_94108@yahoo.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>, chip <chip.gwyn@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <512D0B46.9080709@foobar.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
*received-routes*?=0AIf you still enable soft-reconfig-inbound on your rout=
ers(customer-facing sessions not withstanding), you most certainly hate you=
r routers more than OP...;-)=0A./Randy=0A=0A--- On Tue, 2/26/13, Nick Hilli=
ard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:=0A=0A> From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>=
=0A> Subject: Re: BGP RIB Collection=0A> To: "chip" <chip.gwyn@gmail.com>=
=0A> Cc: "North American Network Operators Group" <nanog@nanog.org>=0A> Dat=
e: Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 11:21 AM=0A> On 26/02/2013 17:24, chip wrote=
:=0A> > Currently I'm gathering this data via SNMP.=0A> =0A> whoa, you must=
really hate your router to do that to it.=0A> =0A> > While this works it h=
as its draw backs, it=0A> > takes approximately 20 minutes per view, its no=
where=0A> near real-time, and=0A> > I'm unable to gather information for IP=
v6.=A0 SNMP,=0A> however, is faster than=0A> > screen scraping.=A0 All of t=
he XML based access=0A> methods seem to take about=0A> > the same time as w=
ell.=0A> =0A> cisco:=0A> --=0A> term len 0=0A> show bgp ipv4 unicast neigh =
x.y.z.w received-routes=0A> --=0A> =0A> juniper:=0A> --=0A> show route rece=
ive-protocol bgp x.y.z.w | no-more=0A> --=0A> =0A> Easily scriptable using =
rancid or something similar.=A0=0A> Of course, this sucks=0A> because you'r=
e only seeing the route summary, not any of the=0A> attributes.=0A> =0A> > =
project is still in its infancy.=A0 BMP seems to be=0A> a good solution but=
I've=0A> > not found a working client implementation yet.=A0 I=0A> see tha=
t you can actually=0A> > configure this on some Juniper gear but I can't se=
em to=0A> locate a client to=0A> > ingest the data the router produces.=0A>=
=0A> Can you provide a list of the clients that you have=0A> tried?=A0 It =
would save=0A> people the effort of going through them and finding out the=
=0A> same things as=0A> you did.=0A> =0A> Nick=0A> =0A> =0A> =0A>
