[181013] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Setting Up a Looking Glass
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Sat Jun 13 18:21:17 2015
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:21:15 -0400
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>>> Here's a relatively new and fresh perspective on it:
>>> https://github.com/ramnode/LookingGlass
>>> You can see it in action here:
>>> http://lg.nyc.ramnode.com/
>> looking glass without routing, indeed a new perspective :(
>
> with a bit more coffee, perhaps i can expand a bit.
>
> for widely distributed data plane probes (ping/traceroute/...), we have
> good alternatives, nlring, ripe atlas, traceroute.org, etc. as an op,
> nlring is my fave of the month as i can go from question to result in
> minimal typing and a matter of seconds.
>
> 'looking glass' has traditionally meant a control plane (routing) view.
> this is a rarer beast, and setting one up is often a bit crude.
Indeed. As with most things there are always more than one meaning,
and of course even those change with time. I read into the OP's
words that he was looking for a locally hosted capability that he
could easily give out to his people in order to trouble shoot
connectivity.
-Jim P.
