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Re: Looking Glass
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Chambers)
Tue Sep 7 12:09:39 2010
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:07:34 -0700
From: Jason Chambers <jchambers@ucla.edu>
To: Peter Rudasingwa <peter.rudasingwa@altechstream.rw>
In-Reply-To: <4C864791.1050603@altechstream.rw>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9/7/10 7:09 AM, Peter Rudasingwa wrote:
> I have a linux (ubuntu) box and I would like to install a BGP looking
> glass. Are there any out there for free and how can one go about it? Is
> linux the best OS to use?
>
Setup quagga [1] and write a perl script [2] to "peer" with the box.
The perl script updates a database as BGP events occur. The rest is
easy web programming.
[1] http://www.quagga.net/
[2] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-BGP/
Regards,
--Jason
