[c-nsp] If BGP is running on a circuit, if you ping the other end you get loss. kill the BGP (and thus the traffic..) no more loss.

[Eric Van Tol]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drew Weaver [mailto:drew.weaver at thenap.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:15 AM
> To: Eric Van Tol; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [c-nsp] If BGP is running on a circuit, if you ping the
> other end you get loss. kill the BGP (and thus the traffic..) no more
> loss.
>
> Something like that is fairly good at letting us drill down and see
> which box on our network is doing the most traffic, the most traffic
> of X protocol?, et cetera so I don't have to manually read netflow
> for thousands of 10/100 ports ;-)
>
> -Drew

Definitely.  There are also open-source alternatives such as ntop that can provide similar functionality if you're looking for the "free" route.

-evt