I would like too see some information, commonly obtained through
"show bgp summary" in SR messages:
MsgRcvd/MsgSent: useful to find verbose neighbours.
PfxRcd: useful to produce an alarm reaching some threshold
InQ/OutQ: useful to...

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Pedro



On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Stephen Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Geoff Huston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On 20/11/2008, at 6:51 AM, Stephen Stuart wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Geoff Huston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 20/11/2008, at 5:16 AM, Stephen Stuart wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This should probably not be a common case, but we do see it from time
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> time. It would be useful for us to be able to have this data.
>>>>>
>>>>> Data regarding the state of configured peers are already available by
>>>>> other means (the BGP 4 MIB described in RFC1657); correlating with
>>>>> that data tells us that a peer has supplied no updates
>>>>> (BGP4-MIB::bgpPeerInUpdates.A.B.C.D). If the update count is non-zero
>>>>> and there are still no BMP messages indicating that the peer supplied
>>>>> a prefix, then it's likely attributable to "state changes in the
>>>>> interim" for that prefix.
>>>>
>>>> having access to a feed of BGP data for research purposes and SNMP access
>>>> to
>>>> the bgp speaker's MIB are invariably two entirely different concepts,
>>>
>>> On the other hand, an application built to use a feed of BGP data for
>>> decision support almost certainly has other sources of operational
>>> data, such as BGP MIB data, readily available. At least that's the
>>> case for me.
>>
>> true, but my comment is motivated by the text in the draft's abstract which
>> states:
>>
>> "BMP is intended to provide a more convenient interface for obtaining route
>> views for research purpose than the screen-scraping approach in common use
>> today".
>> And if the intent is to serve the BPG feed leeches (such as myself!) then
>> SNMP access is not a given.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Do SR messages suffice? Would you prefer to see some of the
> information from the bgpPeerTable replicated in SR messages?
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