[70835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Martin)
Thu May 27 12:37:48 2004
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:33:03 -0500
From: Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net>
To: Noel Montales <4noel@waveform.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1085642487.484.1026.camel@pcobo>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
This should help
http://www.bgp4.as/tools
Olivier Bonaventure wrote:
> Noel,
>
>>Does anybody happen to know of any open source project working on a BGP
>>route optimizer like what Route Science or Internap or the likes have
>>commercially?
>
>
>
> The TOTEM project (see http://totem.info.ucl.ac.be/ ) is building a set
> of open source traffic engineering tools. Our focus is currently on
> tools that can allow ISPs to engineer/capacity plan their network by :
> - tuning BGP configuration
> - tuning IGP weights
> - establishing intra- and inter-domain MPLS tunnels
>
> The TOTEM toolbox will evolve over a three years period and the first
> version will be available this fall from the project web site.
>
> Concerning BGP, the project has already developped a tool called C-BGP
> (http://cbgp.info.ucl.ac.be) that can be used to simulate the behavior
> of BGP in large networks. C-BGP supports a configuration language
> similar to current routers and we have used it to simulated networks
> with 10.000 routers. We are currently using CBGP to perform what-if
> analysis to evaluate the impact of link, router and peering failures in
> transit networks.
>
> We are interested in discussing with ISPs who would like to use/test
> such an opensource traffic engineering toolbox on ther network.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Olivier Bonaventure
