BGP RIB Collection

[nick at foobar.org (Nick Hilliard)]

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