[AusNOG] Checking peering

[Cheyne Jonstone]

Noction works well, but is far too expensive for what it is. It also takes
a toll on the routers as well, so be prepared to have some CPU/memory
constantly chewed by it.

Regards,

Cheyne Jonstone | VentraIP Australia
*Executive Chairman*


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Ross Cheetham <ross at crucial.com.au> wrote:

> Hey Luke,
>
> Be very interested to see how you find this tool. Was talking with these
> guys when they were still beta, but never got a chance to have a trial /
> play.
>
> Cheers,
> Ross
>
>
> On 28 August 2014 12:25, Luke Iggleden <luke+ausnog at sisgroup.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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