[116645] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Visualizing BGP paths
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dylan Ebner)
Wed Aug 12 11:47:51 2009
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:46:02 -0600
In-Reply-To: <4A82E328.2030805@imate.fi>
From: "Dylan Ebner" <dylan.ebner@crlmed.com>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jarno_L=E4hteenm=E4ki?= <jarno.lahteenmaki@imate.fi>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I use BGPLay for showing our connected status, but it doesn't let me put =
in a source IP/AS and a destination IP/AS. BGPlay is very helpful =
though.
Dylan Ebner
-----Original Message-----
From: Jarno L=E4hteenm=E4ki [mailto:jarno.lahteenmaki@imate.fi]=20
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:44 AM
To: Dylan Ebner
Subject: Re: Visualizing BGP paths
http://bgplay.routeviews.org/bgplay/
Dylan Ebner wrote:
> I have been working on a project to better illustrate for our manages=20
> the provider path data takes when it flows from one of our customers=20
> to our datacenter. I have tried to use trace routes to illustrate the=20
> number of hops data takes, but when I try to show many sources on one=20
> page, it gets fairly messy quickly. I am also less concerned with the=20
> number of hops, and more concerned with the number of providers.
> Does anyone know of a toolset that will take a list of source IP's and =
> a destination IP and show graphically which as numbers the packets=20
> need to traverse to reach our datacenter? I am thinking of something =
like this:
> http://www.robtex.com/as/as19629.html#graph, but instead of all the=20
> upstreams it would show something like AS16150 -> AS1239 -> AS209 ->=20
> AS19629.
> =20
> =20
> =20
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> Dylan Ebner
>
> =20
