In this guide we will provide detailed guide which will help you to establish BGP session between FastNetMon and JunOS / Juniper network devices.

To apply commands which alter configuration of router you need to be in JunOS cli, in configure mode. To switch JunOS cli into configure mode you need to run following command:

configure

We assume that you have BGP enabled on your router but if you configure new router it may be needed.

set routing-options router-id 192.168.1.132
set routing-options autonomous-system 65001

Then you need to create BGP peering session:

set protocols bgp group fastnetmon-advanced type internal
set protocols bgp group fastnetmon-advanced description "Connection to FastNetMon"

In our example we use iBGP but you may use eBGP as well. On next step you need to set local and remote IPs (for machine with FastNetMon installed) for this BGP session. Please ensure that each device can reach each other using these IP addresses:

set protocols bgp group fastnetmon-advanced local-address 192.168.1.132
set protocols bgp group fastnetmon-advanced neighbor 192.168.1.106

If FastNetMon is not connected directly into router you will need to set this option on router:

set protocols bgp group fastnetmon-advanced multihop

If you set multihop on router then on FastNetMon’s side you will need to set flag multihop for BGP peering session too.

In addition I can recommend setting this option to simplify debugging as it will provide log entries when BGP session does up or down:

set protocols bgp group fastnetmon-advanced log-updown

Finally, commit changes:

commit

Then you will need to check that BGP peering session is configured properly on FastNetMon’s side.

As next step you can run this command to check BGP session state change with this command. To run command which just show information you need to use “quit” command to leave configuration mode.

Then check log files:

show log messages | last 5

Example output may look like:

Mar  1 03:12:24   rpd[8494]: RPD_BGP_NEIGHBOR_STATE_CHANGED: BGP peer 192.168.1.106 (Internal AS 65001) changed state from Established to Idle (event RecvNotify) (instance master)
Mar  1 03:12:32   rpd[8494]: BGP_NLRI_MISMATCH: bgp_process_caps: mismatch NLRI with 192.168.1.106 (Internal AS 65001): peer: <inet-unicast inet-flow>(16385) us: <inet-unicast>(1) (instance master)
Mar  1 03:12:32   rpd[8494]: RPD_BGP_NEIGHBOR_STATE_CHANGED: BGP peer 192.168.1.106 (Internal AS 65001) changed state from OpenConfirm to Established (event RecvKeepAlive) (instance master)

It confirms that BGP session was successfully established between FastNetMon and GoBGP.

You may check BGP session status from FastNetMon’s side this way (use IP of router here):

gobgp nei 192.168.1.132

Example output:

BGP neighbor is 192.168.1.132, remote AS 65001
  BGP version 4, remote router ID 192.168.1.132
  BGP state = ESTABLISHED, up for 00:07:15
  BGP OutQ = 0, Flops = 0
  Hold time is 90, keepalive interval is 30 seconds
  Configured hold time is 90, keepalive interval is 30 seconds
  
  Neighbor capabilities:
    multiprotocol:
        ipv4-unicast:	advertised and received
        ipv4-flowspec:	advertised
    route-refresh:	advertised and received
    extended-nexthop:	advertised
        Local:  nlri: ipv4-unicast, nexthop: ipv6
nlri: ipv4-flowspec, nexthop: ipv6
    graceful-restart:	received
        Remote: notification flag set
    4-octet-as:	advertised and received
    long-lived-graceful-restart:	received
    cisco-route-refresh:	received
  Message statistics:
                         Sent       Rcvd
    Opens:                  1          1
    Notifications:          0          0
    Updates:                0          1
    Keepalives:            15         17
    Route Refresh:          0          0
    Discarded:              0          0
    Total:                 16         19
  Route statistics:
    Advertised:             0
    Received:               0
    Accepted:               0

To see BGP session status from Juniper you can use this command (use IP of FastNetMon’s machine):

show bgp neighbor 192.168.1.106

Example output:

Peer: 192.168.1.106+179 AS 65001 Local: 192.168.1.132+62243 AS 65001
  Description: Connection to FastNetMon
  Group: fastnetmon-advanced   Routing-Instance: master
  Forwarding routing-instance: master  
  Type: Internal    State: Established    Flags: <Sync>
  Last State: OpenConfirm   Last Event: RecvKeepAlive
  Last Error: None
  Options: <Multihop Preference LocalAddress LogUpDown Refresh>
  Options: <GracefulShutdownRcv>
  Local Address: 192.168.1.132 Holdtime: 90 Preference: 170
  Graceful Shutdown Receiver local-preference: 0
  Number of flaps: 3
  Last flap event: RecvNotify
  Error: 'Cease' Sent: 0 Recv: 3
  Peer ID: 192.168.1.106   Local ID: 192.168.1.132     Active Holdtime: 90
  Keepalive Interval: 30         Group index: 0    Peer index: 0    SNMP index: 0     
  I/O Session Thread: bgpio-0 State: Enabled
  BFD: disabled, down
  NLRI for restart configured on peer: inet-unicast
  NLRI advertised by peer: inet-unicast inet-flow
  NLRI for this session: inet-unicast
  Peer supports Refresh capability (2)
  Stale routes from peer are kept for: 300
  Peer does not support Restarter functionality
  NLRI of all end-of-rib markers sent: inet-unicast
  Peer does not support Receiver functionality
  Peer does not support LLGR Restarter or Receiver functionality
  Peer supports 4 byte AS extension (peer-as 65001)
  Peer does not support Addpath
  NLRI that peer supports extended nexthop encoding for: inet-unicast
  NLRI(s) enabled for color nexthop resolution: inet-unicast
  Table inet.0 Bit: 20000
    RIB State: BGP restart is complete
    Send state: in sync
    Active prefixes:              0
    Received prefixes:            0
    Accepted prefixes:            0
    Suppressed due to damping:    0
    Advertised prefixes:          0
  Last traffic (seconds): Received 20   Sent 13   Checked 860 
  Input messages:  Total 29	Updates 0	Refreshes 0 	Octets 551
  Output messages: Total 33	Updates 0	Refreshes 0 	Octets 631
  Output Queue[1]: 0            (inet.0, inet-unicast)

To confirm that everything works fine we recommend blocking some test host on FastNetMon’s side this way:

sudo fcli set blackhole 11.22.33.44

And then checking that Juniper receive it correctly (use IP of machine with FastNetMon):

show route receive-protocol bgp 192.168.1.106

Example output:

inet.0: 5 destinations, 5 routes (5 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)
  Prefix		  Nexthop	       MED     Lclpref    AS path
* 11.22.33.0/24           1.2.3.4                      100        ?
* 11.22.33.44/32          1.2.3.4                      100        ?

inet6.0: 1 destinations, 1 routes (1 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)

This guide covers only BGP peering session setup. We did not create any filters or policies to apply BGP blackhole. You need to do it on your own using BGP communities provided by your ISP.

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