North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Measuring BGP routes
On 23 Aug 2002, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 15:05, Frank Scalzo wrote: > *edited for length* > > Most of the tools I have seen have basically done a show ip bgp > > collected the whole table and parsed it. I know I wrote a tool like that > > Is there any reason this is preferable to establishing an eBGP multihop > session with the box and receiving the information by that means? Yes. BGP only passes along the best route. 'show ip bgp' gives you all routes. Unless, of course, your vendor supports something like Juniper's "advertise-inactive". Bradley
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