[161152] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP RIB Collection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Rolland (=?UTF-8?B?44Od44O844)
Wed Feb 27 02:56:14 2013
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:53:57 +0100
From: Paul Rolland (=?UTF-8?B?44Od44O844Or44O744Ot44Op44Oz?=) <rol@witbe.net>
To: chip <chip.gwyn@gmail.com>
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Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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Hello,
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:24:00 -0500
chip <chip.gwyn@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an application that needs to gather BGP RIB data from the routers
> that connect to all of our upstream providers. Basically I need to know
> all the routes available from a particular provider. Currently I'm
> gathering this data via SNMP. While this works it has its draw backs, it
> takes approximately 20 minutes per view, its nowhere near real-time, and
> I'm unable to gather information for IPv6. SNMP, however, is faster than
> screen scraping. All of the XML based access methods seem to take about
> the same time as well.
To do that, I've set up a peering session between a router and a Linux
running exabgp connected to a script in which I can do any kind of
processing I want on BGP updates that are forwarded from the router to
exabgp to the script.
Best,
Paul
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