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Another option would be to run an instance of quagga on the BIRD box and peer it with the BIRD instance in receive-only mode. Then you could do the LG stuff against that. Owen On May 13, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Justin Krejci wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 15:46 +0000, Mike Horwath wrote: >> On 5/13/11 10:43 AM, "Justin Krejci" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 15:11 +0000, Mike Horwath wrote: >>>> On 5/12/11 6:57 PM, "Justin Krejci" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> As I understand it there is currently no public looking glass or route >>>>> server for MICE users or the public in general. Any interest in setting >>>>> something up? I could donate a server or some time to the cause. They >>>> are >>>>> quite useful in troubleshooting routing issues or network changes. >>>> >>>> You are correct, there isn't. >>>> >>>> This could easily run on the system that handles the statistics easily >>>> enough, just I have no idea how I would tie bird into a LG setup. >>>> >>> >>> Looks like using its CLI will not be immediately compatible with most >>> (all?) LG tools out there which are seemingly mostly geared around >>> Cisco, Juniper, and Zebra/Quagga systems it seems. Unless someone knows >>> of a really great and flexible LG app. >> >> Yah, that was my finding as well. >> >>> Perhaps a small C/J router could peer up with the two servers to suck in >>> the routes and be used as the LG source and as a publicly telnet >>> accessible route server as well. >> >> There will be a Juniper in place soon - once that is done, we can look at >> putting it into the 'route' subsystem (this is *not* a requirement for >> operation of the peering point, in fact, it could create other issues if >> something breaks) but we could then query that for data. > > If there will be a Juniper router already going into the network anyways > that would certainly work I should think. Then it can be polled by the > existing stats server you mentioned. > >>> >>> ALso OpenBSD has a good bgp daemon with their own bgplg toools (web and >>> cli) included. >>> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgp&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD >>> +Current&arch=amd64&apropos=1&format=html >> >> We aren't using OpenBSD anywhere though...we are using BIRD. > > A small OpenBSD server, even a small Soekris style box, can still suck > up a read-only copy of the routes from the route servers via BGP. No > real maintenance or overhead once its up and running. The only real > difference between something like this and using a C/J would be that > OBSD has all of the tools built in already, so it's a matter of > convenience and the general dependable security of an OBSD system. I > have a such Soekris box with a flash drive I could donate to the cause > as I've been looking for something to do with it besides accessorize my > desk. I only mention this as an option as I have used OBSD for a long > time and am familiar with it and it would meet the needs from what I can > see. > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the MICE-DISCUSS list, click the following link: > http://lists.iphouse.net/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=MICE-DISCUSS&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MICE-DISCUSS list, click the following link: http://lists.iphouse.net/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=MICE-DISCUSS&A=1