Monitor IPv6 BGP peering

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 09:02:19AM +0200, Seth Mos wrote:
> I've looked online how to monitor the IPv6 BGP peering state via SNMP of 
> our Cisco routers. The only references I found regarding this is that 
> they might be listed oddly in the SNMP table, but that was 12.3 iirc.

As far as I understand, this is ongoing work in the IETF "IDR" working
group - they are working to define a new version of the BGP MIB, which
could then be used to monitor IPv6 sessions as well...

The draft I found is "draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-13.txt".

Quote:
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   This MIB addresses several of the deficiencies of the previous BGP-4 
   MIB.  In particular: 

   o  Add the ability to monitor IPv6 BGP-4 peering sessions and carry
      IPv6 reachability.  Other forms of reachability can be added at a 
      later date courtesy of the address-family independent manner in
      which this was done.
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I do not know whether this not-yet-RFC has been implemented in any 
products yet (we don't use SNMP to monitor BGP sessions but "expect"-style
scripts).

Gert Doering
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