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[Nick Hilliard]

On 11/10/2013 18:40, Martin J. Levy wrote:
> I note that in your response you show a reliance on "bgp4-mibv2"

no, we show an aspiration that one day, bgp4-mibv2 might do what we want.
At the moment we depend on bgp4-mibv1, which is pretty limited in scope.

> but
> I'm very sure that the use of a non SNMP interaction between modules
> could also be accepted. (Even an expect script generating a txt file
> would be acceptable if not called to often). I would seriously think
> you should separate function from communications method.

agreed, except that we've found that screen scraping the output of "show ip
bgp" or "show bgp" is a really trashy way of monitoring things.  bgp4-mibv2
is now supported on recent IOS, so we can now move towards that.

Nick