[AusNOG] Checking peering

[Andrew Jones]

I can't get away from their ads, they follow me all over the Internet!
But yes, I'd be interested in hearing anyone's experiences with it as 
well.
Andrew


On 28.08.2014 17:38, Ross Cheetham 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/ [2]
>>
>> 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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