[AusNOG] Checking peering

[Luke Iggleden]

I was pointed to this a couple of weeks ago. going to give it a trial.

http://www.noction.com/



On 28/08/2014 12:14 pm, Richard Ham AusNOG wrote:
> 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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