[98923] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Operations Guide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Nash)
Fri Aug 24 13:37:20 2007
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:26:30 -0700 (MST)
From: Bill Nash <billn@billn.net>
To: Greg VILLAIN <gregoire.villain@dailymotion.com>
cc: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists@spacething.org>,
Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>, deepak@ai.net, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <40457BF1-A0C1-4562-8B7E-0A89DD1FE650@dailymotion.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Greg VILLAIN wrote:
> Thing is, Zebra/Quagga doesn't seem to have any sort of "external connector"
> to withdraw the routes in a decent format for analysis purposes (xml, csv,
> plain list...).
> Last time we tried, Zebra/Quagga broke down when we installed SNMP support (to
> locally query the routing table on the soft router).
>
> Anyone know about any solution for such BGP data collection ? (OpenBGPd ?)
> Thanks in advance for any hint.
I built a perl daemon using Net::BGP and DBI that inserted and removed
routes, on update, into an SQL db. I could then query to my hearts
content, beating up a db with full routes with all the efficiency of SQL.
It's simple as hell and works great.
- billn
