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Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?


From: Adam Rothschild <asr+nanog () latency net>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:32:58 -0400


On 2007-06-18-11:45:37, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver () thenap com> wrote:
Does anyone have a recommendation of any software products either
commercial or freeware which will import the ip routing table from
one of my routers/switches and display it in a sorted manner? [...]

I'd configure a 'nix host running openbgpd[1] as a BGP peer.  This
approach works great for periodic dumps and offline analysis of your
routing table.

I'll refrain from commenting on the wisdom in walking your RIB as a
_means_ of address assignment (and not merely a safeguard), so as to
avoid steering this discussion off-topic. :-)

-a

[1] <http://www.openbgpd.org/>


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