Re: Network Operations Guide

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