YABGP

What is yabgp?

YABGP is a yet another Python implementation for BGP Protocol. It was born in Cisco around 2011, we use it to establish BGP connections with all kinds of routers (include real Cisco/HuaWei/Juniper routers and some router simulators in Cisco like IOL/IOU) and receive/parse BGP messages for future analysis. Now we open sourced it.

We write it in strict accordance with the specifications of RFCs.

This software can be used on Linux/Unix, Mac OS and Windows systems.

Features

• It can establish BGP session based on IPv4 address (TCP Layer) in active mode(as TCP client);
• Support TCP MD5 authentication(IPv4 and does not support Windows now);
• BGP capabilities support: 4 Bytes ASN, IPv4 address family, Route Refresh(Cisco Route Refresh);
• Decode all BGP messages to human readable strings and write files to disk(configurable);

Quick Start

We recommend run yabgp through python virtual-env from source code or pip install

Use yabgp from source code:

$ virtualenv yabgp-virl
$ source yabgp-virl/bin/activate
$ git clone https://github.com/smartbgp/yabgp
$ cd yabgp
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ cd bin
$ python yabgpd -h

Use pip install

$ virtualenv yabgp-virl
$ source yabgp-virl/bin/activate
$ pip install yabgp
$ which yabgpd
/home/bgpmon/yabgp-virl/bin/yabgpd
$ yabgpd -h

For example:

$ yabgpd --bgp-local_addr=1.1.1.1 --bgp-local_as=65001 --bgp-remote_addr=1.1.1.2 --bgp-remote_as=65001 --bgp-md5=test --config-file=../etc/yabgp/yabgp.ini

BGP message example:

in yabgp.ini, you can point out if you want to store the parsing BGP message to local disk and where you want to put them in.

[message]
# how to process parsed BGP message?

# Whether the BGP message is written to disk
# write_disk = True

# the BGP messages storage path
# write_dir = /home/bgpmon/data/bgp/
write_dir = ./
# The Max size of one BGP message file, the unit is MB
# write_msg_max_size = 500

   $ more 1429257741.41.msg
   [1429258235.343657, 1, 1, {'bgpID': '192.168.45.1', 'Version': 4, 'holdTime': 180, 'ASN': 23650, 'Capabilities': {'GracefulRestart': False, 'ciscoMultiSession': False, 'ciscoRouteRefresh': True, '4byteAS': True, 'AFI_SAFI': [(1, 1)],
'7
   0': '', 'routeRefresh': True}}, (0, 0)]
   [1429258235.346803, 2, 4, None, (0, 0)]
   [1429258235.349598, 3, 4, None, (0, 0)]
   [1429258235.349837, 4, 2, {'ATTR': {1: 0, 2: [(2, [64639, 64660])], 3: '192.168.24.1', 4: 0, 5: 100}, 'WITHDRAW': [], 'NLRI': ['192.168.1.0/24']}, (1, 1)]

The structure of each line is:

[timestamp, sequence number, message type, message content, address family]

For message type:

MSG_OPEN = 1
MSG_UPDATE = 2
MSG_NOTIFICATION = 3
MSG_KEEPALIVE = 4
MSG_ROUTEREFRESH = 5
MSG_CISCOROUTEREFRESH = 128

Support

Send email to [email protected], or use GitHub issue system.

TODO

• support more address family (flowspec, IPv6, VPNv4, VPNv6, etc.)
• support RESTful API, send message/control peer state, etc.
• more unittest
• others

Contribute

Please create Github Pull Request https://github.com/smartbgp/yabgp/pulls

More details please read HACKING.rst.

Thanks

For core files like fsm, protocol, we copy some of the code from https://github.com/wikimedia/PyBal/blob/master/pybal/bgp.py,

and message parsing, we reference from https://github.com/Exa-Networks/exabgp