Ed,
Why not just set up separate (multi-hopped) ebgp peerings between
your gated box and your peers' routers? Accept the same routes
your regular routers do, and advertise nothing. You have to
get your peers to agree, of course, which may not be that easy.
--Richard
> I'm thinking about setting up a system that imports my
> Cisco BGP tables into Mysql, to make it much easier to do analysis
> / projection work. I can easily write a perl script to wrap 'rsh
> router show ip bgp' and parse the output and populate database
> tables. My issue is updating the data. I don't want to do a full
> dump every 10 minutes, due to router load and general kludginess.
>
> What I'm looking for is if there's a way I can cull
> incremental changes to BGP tables. I was thinking I can set up a
> zebra or GateD peer with my routers, but that doesn't give me full
> BGP tables -- all it gives me are the best paths selected by my
> routers. I want it all. Ideally (I know it's not reality) some
> sort of bgp table update export facility, akin to the flow-export
> functionality, would be what I want.
>
> Another idea would be to have my external peers peer with
> a zebra or GateD instance, and then have my routers peer with that.
> I am nervous about that due to reliability. I don't trust either
> zebra or GateD for that level of required service. (Not yet anyway,
> it sure looks like zebra will be able to do that -- if you've never
> messed with zebra, go and grab it, it's fun as heck. www.zebra.org)
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