BGP RIB Collection

Wed Feb 27 18:42:48 UTC 2013

info on bmpreceiver below..

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:24 PM, chip <chip.gwyn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>   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.
>
>   I've been watching, with keen interest, the i2rs ietf workings, but the
> 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.

https://code.google.com/p/bmpreceiver/

and then it can be dumped where ever you want.. iirc, splunk can parse the
data.

--Heather

> The BGP Add Paths implementation
> seems to be the best choice at the moment and exabgp has a working
> implementation.
>
> Are there any other technologies or methods of accessing this data that
> I've missed or that you've found useful?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --chip
>
> --
> Just my $.02, your mileage may vary,  batteries not included, etc....
>