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[Rob Lister]

Is there a way to count the number of prefixes by peer / total received prefixes these days with SNMP... last time I tried, it wasn't possible, hence parsing the cli output needed.

R.

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Robert Lister

> On 31 Oct 2013, at 16:46, Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> wrote:
> 
>> 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
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