[45225] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking glasses with programmatic interface?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vincent Gillet)
Wed Jan 23 04:47:27 2002
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:45:51 +0100
From: Vincent Gillet <vgi@zoreil.com>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Hi Stephane,
> I'm surprised to see that every looking glass I know is only reachable via an
> interface made for humans, not for programs. When you want to query the LG via
> a program (for instance to monitor your routes on a distant LG), you need to
> emulate an human being and parse HTML (or sometimes Cisco text) replies.
Public looking glass are for humans.
I do not want my looking-glass being heavily loaded by cron tool.
looking-glass use router CPU and i do not want to see a foolish guy to
put a :
* * * * *
Crontab ...
Route-server is a solution to have load CPU router.
Vincent.
