BGP RIB Collection

Wed Feb 27 07:53:57 UTC 2013

Hello,

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:24:00 -0500
chip <chip.gwyn at 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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