[116657] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Visualizing BGP paths
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Jager)
Wed Aug 12 17:17:20 2009
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:16:18 +1200
From: Michael Jager <mike@mikej.net.nz>
To: Dylan Ebner <dylan.ebner@crlmed.com>
In-Reply-To: <6286FF05EBE33C4596F6C6C23762686702561805@VS11.EXCHPROD.USA.NET>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 13/08/09 03:38, Dylan Ebner wrote:
> I have been working on a project to better illustrate for our manages
> the provider path data takes when it flows from one of our customers to
> our datacenter. I have tried to use trace routes to illustrate the
> number of hops data takes, but when I try to show many sources on one
> page, it gets fairly messy quickly. I am also less concerned with the
> 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 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
> upstreams it would show something like AS16150 -> AS1239 -> AS209 ->
> AS19629.
I find Perry Lorier's traceroute mesh server (http://tr.meta.net.nz) in
"Grouped by AS" mode (do a "Full Traceroute" first to find the Grouped
by AS option) pretty useful as a general "how do other people reach us?"
tool. I don't think it's exactly what you want, but could possibly be
something to start with?
-Mike
