BGP RIB Collection

Wed Feb 27 03:51:47 UTC 2013

*received-routes*?
If you still enable soft-reconfig-inbound on your routers(customer-facing sessions not withstanding), you most certainly hate your routers more than OP...;-)
./Randy

--- On Tue, 2/26/13, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:

> From: Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org>
> Subject: Re: BGP RIB Collection
> To: "chip" <chip.gwyn at gmail.com>
> Cc: "North American Network Operators Group" <nanog at nanog.org>
> Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 11:21 AM
> On 26/02/2013 17:24, chip wrote:
> > Currently I'm gathering this data via SNMP.
> 
> whoa, you must really hate your router to do that to it.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> cisco:
> --
> term len 0
> show bgp ipv4 unicast neigh x.y.z.w received-routes
> --
> 
> juniper:
> --
> show route receive-protocol bgp x.y.z.w | no-more
> --
> 
> Easily scriptable using rancid or something similar. 
> Of course, this sucks
> because you're only seeing the route summary, not any of the
> attributes.
> 
> > project is still in its infancy.  BMP seems to be
> a good solution but I've
> > not found a working client implementation yet.  I
> see that you can actually
> > configure this on some Juniper gear but I can't seem to
> locate a client to
> > ingest the data the router produces.
> 
> Can you provide a list of the clients that you have
> tried?  It would save
> people the effort of going through them and finding out the
> same things as
> you did.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> 
> 