[c-nsp] How to monitor BGP sessions

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 11:16:01AM +0200, Simon Leinen wrote:
> Gert Doering writes:
> > I wonder how this looks like if you have multiple IPv6 neighbours
> > starting with the same 32 bits - 32.1.21.24 is just decimal for
> > 2001:1518: - so what happens if you have another neighbor,
> > 2001:1518:0:3001::2 (or so)?
> 
> Does nobody here run iBGP over IPv6? 

We do...

> Multiple IPv6 neighbors in the
> same /32 are mangled into one MIB row.  

... but we don't use SNMP to monitore BGP session state (but some crude
scripts that do "show ip bgp su" on the router's CLI).

gert
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