[c-nsp] IPv6 ND cache via SNMP

[Dale W. Carder]

On Oct 19, 2010, at 1:52 AM, Phil Mayers wrote:

> On 10/19/2010 01:03 AM, Michael Sinatra wrote:
>> Is anyone out there polling the IPv6 neighbor discovery cache via SNMP?
> 
> Previously, yes. I get them via expect/cli now, because the OID sorting required for snmpwalk of that table on 6500s is prohibitively expensive when it gets very large (well - it is for IPv4 & ipNetToMedia; I am assuming the same for ipv6, and since the expect script already runs for v4...)

We landed in the same boat.  Asking the 6500, which has less
general-purpose processing power than my cell phone, to sort
and export ten thousand or so entries every 'n' minutes was
fruitless.  So, now I scrape it with clogin for both v4 and
v6 and shovel this into sql.

Dale