[148392] in North American Network Operators' Group
ANNOUNCE: bgptables.merit.edu - understanding visibility of your
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Manish Karir)
Fri Jan 13 15:19:55 2012
From: Manish Karir <mkarir@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:19:04 -0500
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
All,
We would like to announce the availability of the bgpTables Project at =
Merit at: http://bgptables.merit.edu
bgpTables allows users to easily navigate global routing table data =
collected via routviews.org. bgptables
essentially processes the data collected at routeviews and makes is =
available in a somewhat easier
to use interface. The goal of bgpTables is to represent global prefix =
and AS visibility information from the
vantage point of the various bgp table views as seen at routeviews.=20
The data is currently updated nightly (EST) but we hope to improve this =
over time.=20
Please see the FAQ (http://bgptables.merit.edu/faq.php) for some simple =
examples of how you can use bgpTables.
Some examples:
- You can query for a specific ASN by entering the text 'as' followed by =
the AS number into the search box. For example to query for information =
about AS 237 you would enter 'as237' [without quotation marks] into the =
search box and then click 'search'. You can then use the view navigator =
map to switch to different routing table views for this ASN
- You can query for a specific prefix by directly entering the prefix =
into the search box. For example to query for information about prefix =
12.0.0.0/8 you would simply enter '12.0.0.0/8' [without quotation marks] =
into the search box and then click 'search'. You can then use the view =
navigator map to switch to different routing table views for the prefix.
- You can find a particular prefix that you might be interested in by =
running a 'contained within' query via the search box. For example to =
quickly browse a list of prefixes contained within 1.0.0.0/8 to find the =
particular prefix you might be interested in, you can enter the text =
'cw1.0.0.0/8' [without quotation marks] into the search box and click =
'search'. You can then browse the resulting table to select the =
particular prefix you might be interested in.
- You can simply enter the text 'as' followed by the company name into =
the search box then click search to view a list of possible matches for =
that text. For example, to view all matching google ASNs you can simply =
enter 'asgoogle' into the search box and click search. A list of =
possible matching ASNs that reference Google by name will be returned =
from which you an then select the particular ASN that is of interest to =
you.
Comments, corrections, and suggestions are very welcome. Please send =
them to mkarir@merit.edu. Hopefully folks will find this useful.
Thanks.
-The Merit Network Research and Development Team
