[AusNOG] Checking peering

[Richard Ham AusNOG]

Hi Alex,

I haven't got any new or unheard-of solutions here so will be watching
replies too - I use smokeping to alert, however have been trying to figure
out how to use conditional advertisements on Ciscos to withdraw routes to
peers that are not behaving. I've run into obstacles since I don't receive
global tables from most of my peers and I've messed around with using
scripts initiated by smokeping to withdraw and re-insert BGP advertisement
based on packet loss, however that's purely experimental and I've since
junked the attempt as a bad/error-prone idea.

With Regards,

Richard


-----Original Message-----
From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Alex
Samad - Yieldbroker
Sent: Thursday, 28 August 2014 12:05 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: [AusNOG] Checking peering

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

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