[j-nsp] JunOS BGP Soft Reset Alert

[Scott Weeks]

> A "soft reset"(from the far end) isn't really a reset, it
> is just a   withdrawal off the original announcements and
> an advertisement of the   new announcements - as far as I
> know all you can do is watch for a   large delta in the
> number of announcements - this is something that   you
> should probably be monitoring anyway....


We're in the process of migrating a network of about 100K
DSL lines plus about 100 leased-lines to a new core and
building a NOC.  We're still putting things into place for
the NOC, so I'm not looking at that yet.  I will be soon,
though...  Thanks for your help. :-)

scott 


----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Warren Kumari <warren at kumari.net>
To: surfer at mauigateway.com
Cc: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [j-nsp] JunOS BGP Soft Reset Alert
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:36:12 -0800

> On Feb 16, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I had an upstream change one of our BGP sessions
> > (changed from full routes to default route!) and there
> > was no alert. I found the problem just by my normal
> > looking around at things daily process.  I can't find
> > any SNMP trap for a BGP soft reset.  How do you folks
> > watch for changes in BGP via a soft reset?
> 
> A "soft reset"(from the far end) isn't really a reset, it
> is just a   withdrawal off the original announcements and
> an advertisement of the   new announcements - as far as I
> know all you can do is watch for a   large delta in the
> number of announcements - this is something that   you
> should probably be monitoring anyway....
> 
> Warren
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > scott
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