[181010] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Setting Up a Looking Glass
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Baschak)
Sat Jun 13 16:41:14 2015
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From: Theodore Baschak <theodore@ciscodude.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 15:39:13 -0500
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> On Jun 13, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
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> What's out there for setting up your own looking glass? I saw lots of =
lists of dead projects or projects that hadn't received any love in =
years. Being as most the people I work with don't run Cisco, Juniper, =
etc. for routers, likely having those capabilities with the LG would be =
nice.=20
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If you want/need BGP, OpenBSD + OpenBGPD (with their bgplg =
cgi/restricted shell) is fairly easy to set up. You mesh the looking =
glass in like any other router in your system, and it gives you full =
visibility. I wrote a how-to that you can basically copy and paste into =
a new 1vCPU/1GB vRAM OpenBSD VM which a lot of people have found helpful =
in setting this type of thing up:
https://ciscodude.net/2014/05/14/openbsd-5-dot-5-bgplg/ =
<https://ciscodude.net/2014/05/14/openbsd-5-dot-5-bgplg/>
This was written for 5.5 but also works on 5.6. I will be checking what =
changes with 5.7 in the coming weeks as time permits, and will write a =
followup article if need be.
bgplg also is brandable, there is a template file you can edit to change =
the logos, and add additional information about your network if desired.
Similar to what I=E2=80=99ve written about with OpenBSD, you could also =
peer a system running BIRD (not announcing anything) into your network, =
and run ulg.py (https://github.com/tmshlvck/ulg =
<https://github.com/tmshlvck/ulg>).=20
Theo Baschak
