RE: BGP noob needs monitoring advice

["Michael K. Smith - Adhost" <mksmith () adhost com>]

Hey:

Manually speaking, you can always telnet to route-views.routeviews.org which is a restricted Cisco interface.  Log in 
with username "rviews" and don't enable.  From the prompt you can do all the "show ip bgp" commands you need to see 
whether or not your /24 is being announced via your upstream providers.  As an example 'sho ip bgp x.x.x.x' where 
x.x.x.x is your /24.  You should see the announcement originating from your AS over multiple providers that includes 
both of yours.  If not, you know you have a problem.

Mike

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Pooser [mailto:dave.nanog () alfordmedia com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:53 AM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: BGP noob needs monitoring advice
>
> Earlier this year I got a /24 of PA space, set up our shiny new router,
> got BGP working with both my upstreams, and heaved a sigh of relief: "I'll
> never have to think about THAT again!" (Okay, quit laughing; I SAID I was
> a noob!)
>
> Now, I discover that one of my upstreams quit announcing our route in
> November (fortunately the provider who assigned us the /24, so we're still
> covered in their /18) and the other upstream apparently started filtering
> our announcements last week. I'm working with both of them to get that
> fixed, but it's made it clear to me that I need to be monitoring this.
>
> My question for the group is, how? I can and do monitor my own router, and
> I can see that I'm receiving full routes from both ISPs. I am capable of
> manually accessing route servers and looking glass servers to check if
> they're receiving routes to me, but I'd like something more automated.
> Free is nice, $$ is not a problem, $$$$ might become a problem.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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> Dave Pooser
> Manager of Information Services
> Alford Media  http://www.alfordmedia.com