Hi Tim, It sounds all doable then. If you see recent commits on GitHub (*) you will reckon there has been some work related to BMP precisely to support the use-case of replicator/route-server exporting to pmacct (in addition to the originally supported use-case of a PE router exporting). Look forward to your feedback in the whole area of BMP, whenever you approach it.
Wrt your other question, it is not currently possible to consume flows and BMP from a Kafka bus. Please let me know if you ran into any issues related to buffering or it was a speculative question. Paolo (*) https://github.com/pmacct/pmacct On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 12:00:32PM +1100, Tim Raphael wrote: > Thanks Paolo! > > I’ll look into the bgp_agent_map. > > In this case, both route servers *should* contain the same routing > information however they will never be perfectly symmetrical. > I’ll peer with the “primary” RS for now but I’ll be looking into a GoBGP > daemon to feed BMP data into pmacct instead of direct peer. > > Also, is there a way to feed BMP and flow data into pmacct off a Kafka bus? > It would be good to buffer input data streams into pmacct to allow for better > data buffering and system resiliency? > > Cheers, > > - Tim > > > > On 2 Feb 2018, at 11:48 pm, Paolo Lucente <pa...@pmacct.net> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Tim, > > > > Thanks for your email. Yes, you can map a BGP speaker to a flow exporter > > via bgp_agent_map; since you speak of route servers, that is plural, > > would they all return an omogeneous view in term of routes and more of > > them are in place for redundancy? Or routes would be different at each > > of them and you would be looking for some best-path computation being > > done in pmacct (which is not the case today)? > > > > Paolo > > > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 02:45:16PM +1100, Tim Raphael wrote: > >> Hi All! > >> > >> > >> I work for an IXP and we’re attempting to collect flows across our fabric > >> however I’m not sure how to address our architecture. > >> We run L2 PE devices that don’t interact with L3 at all as far as peers > >> and peering traffic are concerned - they’re just L2 boxes. > >> Peers connect with BGP to a pair of route servers for BGP. > >> > >> Now, I understand the pmacct can do prefix lookup in BGP but I’m under the > >> assumption that the sFlow peer_src_ip has to match the BGP peer source > >> address to a flow to be decorated with BGP specific information. Given our > >> flows will be coming from our PEs and BGP from our route servers - is this > >> possible in pmacct? > >> > >> Cheers! > >> > >> - Tim > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> pmacct-discussion mailing list > >> http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pmacct-discussion mailing list > > http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists > _______________________________________________ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
