Network Operations Guide
Bill Nash
billn at billn.net
Fri Aug 24 17:26:30 UTC 2007
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
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