[AusNOG] Checking peering

[Alex Samad - Yieldbroker]

Hi

So after the issue with Vocus recently, I wonder how do people test weather a peer is good or bad.

I have had a few issues where my link to a peer is okay, BGP is okay, but because of issues downstream my end to end connectivity was down.

So now I am looking at how I can monitor this.

My basic tool set is ping availability and times
Also there is customer feed back 
And application feedback
And msg from ISP (hazard notice etc)

I know cisco has some sort of monitoring and bgp tuning that it can do. But I don't have cisco devices.


So what are other people doing/using?

Alex