[isp-bgp] Re: Monitoring traffic of BGP peers

[Frank Hellemink <druid@...>]

Vladimir,

mac-accounting is very helpful, in combination with mrtg /rrdtool. It
will show you precisely how much bits you and the peer transfer. We have
it deployed on all our IXes (or going to, Juniper only support it on the
qpp pics.)

cheers

Frank

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 00:07, Erik Haagsman wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> I'd say use NetFLow, it's by far the easiest and most flexible and
> there's a lot of free tools like flow-tools and cflowd available to
> process the data and come up with the info you're looking for.
> Be careful when playing with it though, keep an eye on your router's CPU
> levels and don't set your sample rate too high to begin with.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Erik
> 
> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 16:32, Vladimir Kerkhoff (PINS) wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > What is the best to monitor traffic flows on exchange points peerings? We
> > use MRTG to monitor the router ports, but I would like to know the traffic
> > from every BGP peering seperate.
> > 
> > What other tools are handy to monitor trafficflows and/or problems on
> > routers? We use Cisco 7500 routers for our bgp network.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > PINS Network B.V.
> > Vladimir Kerkhoff
> > CTO
> > 
> > 
> > 




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