thought i'd show a few examples of bgp and ospf monitor notifications that rtrmon sends when peers/neighbors go down: Subject: rtrmon do bgp-summary watch last Peers *DOWN* on peer1.lax1.genuity.net: sandbox.ep.net (198.32.146.11) down for 4:28:06 Peers reset on border1.sjc1.genuity.net: border1-eth1.SanJose.fibernet.net (206.183.239.141) reset 0:04:16 ago the ospf example is from a router that had rebooted, i believe, between monitor runs: Subject: rtrmon do ospf-neighbors watch state Differences encountered on core1.nyc1.genuity.net: The following lines were added: Neighbor ID Pri State Address Interface core1.phx1.genu 1 FULL/ - 207.240.0.1 ATM0/0.601 core1.lax1.genu 1 FULL/ - 207.240.0.5 ATM0/0.602 core1.sjc1.genu 1 FULL/ - 207.240.0.9 ATM0/0.603 core1.ord1.genu 1 FULL/ - 207.240.0.17 ATM0/0.605 core1.wdc1.genu 1 FULL/ - 207.240.0.25 ATM0/0.607 core1.phx1.genu 1 FULL/ - 207.240.0.1 ATM1/0.611 core1.lax1.genu 1 FULL/ - 207.240.0.5 ATM1/0.612 core1.sjc1.genu 1 FULL/ - 207.240.0.9 ATM1/0.613 core1.ord1.genu 1 FULL/ - 207.240.0.17 ATM1/0.615 core1.wdc1.genu 1 FULL/ - 207.240.0.25 ATM1/0.617 peer1.nyc1.genu 1 FULL/ - 207.240.48.3 ATM1/0.618 -brett