[181022] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Setting Up a Looking Glass
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Foster)
Sun Jun 14 04:43:38 2015
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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 20:43:32 +1200
From: "Mark Foster" <blakjak@blakjak.net>
To: "Hicks, Byron" <byron.hicks@tx-learn.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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If only it wasn't on sourceforge?
http://ow.ly/OhNcR
(or the original link,
http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don’t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/)
On Sun, June 14, 2015 2:40 pm, Hicks, Byron wrote:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/routerproxy/
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> Is my looking glass/router proxy of choice.
>
>
>> On Jun 13, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
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