[122963] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking Glass software - what's the current state of the art?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (johan)
Wed Feb 24 13:01:31 2010
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:00:15 +0100
From: johan <johanj@sci.kun.nl>
To: Thomas Kernen <tkernen@deckpoint.ch>
In-Reply-To: <4B828993.2070601@deckpoint.ch>
Cc: Joel.Snyder@Opus1.COM, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Thomas Kernen wrote:
> On 2/21/10 7:41 PM, Joel M Snyder wrote:
>> We are migrating our web server from platform A to mutually incompatible
>> platform B and as a result the 7-year-old DCL script I wrote that does
>> Looking Glass for us needs to be replaced. (from my comments, looks like
>> I stole the idea from ejk@digex.net...)
>>
>> I'm guessing that someone else has done a better job and I should be
>> just downloading and using an open source tool.
>>
>> What's the current thinking on a good standalone Looking Glass that can
>> be opened to the Internet-at-large?
>>
>> jms
>>
>
> If you want to try other Looking Glass sources, I've listed a few of
> the more recent implementations here:
> http://www.traceroute.org/#source%20code
>
> HTH,
> Thomas
>
>
If you are looking for something fancy with a graphical interface that
not only represents the current state of your routing but also history
of routechanges you might want to look at ibgplay
http://www.ibgplay.org/lookingGlass.html
Link is not included in the www.traceroute.org website, so if some
maintainer is reading along....
Grtz
Johan
