[c-nsp] Monitoring IPv6 BGP Peering Status via SNMP

[Christian Kratzer]

Hi,

On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Voigt, Thomas wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Joe Marr wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have experience in monitoring IPv6 BGP peering
>> via SNMP. I'm
>
> I don't know if this works with Cisco gear, but I think it's a standard MIB...
>
> Do a snmpwalk on BGP4-MIB::bgpPeerState. You will see an Entry for each BGP Peer (IPv4+IPv6) you have.
> But...
> The OID for the IPv6-Peers is notated as if it would be IPv4. =;-)
> So use the first (most left) 4 octets from  the IPv6 address of the peer and note it decimal with points in between.
> This will give you the complete OID to ask for.

which as people have pointed out before is totally pointless if you are
peering with multiple peers in the same /64.  The oid will be the same
for all peers.

Not sure if the are proprietary mibs available so that one could walk
all ipv6 peers.

Greetings
Christian


> Example:
>
> If the Peer is fe80:dad3:abcd::1
>
> 0xfe = 254
> 0x80 = 128
> 0xda = 218
> 0xd3 = 211
>
> You have to ask for this OID
>
> BGP4-MIB::bgpPeerState.254.128.218.211
>
>

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