[76844] in North American Network Operators' Group
Announcing LinkRank BGP Visualization Tool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mohit Lad)
Fri Dec 31 20:02:52 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Mohit Lad <mohit@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:02:45 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Dear All,
We are pleased to announce the public release of the Link-Rank tool
set, presented at Nanog-32 (http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0410/lad.html).
Link-Rank visualizes BGP routing changes to help monitor and diagnose
global routing dynamics and is being developed by UCLA's Internet
Research Lab in collaboration with Colorado State University's Network
Security Lab. LinkRank is freely available for download from:
http://linkrank.cs.ucla.edu/
Together with the tool, we also provide downloadable data of routing
dynamics from all the peers of RouteViews Oregon Zebra collector. As of
now data is available from January 1, 2004 till Dec 24, 2004; within
next couple weeks it will be updated to include the previous day on a
daily basis. We are in the process of (1) adding data from the other
RouteViews collectors as well as RIPE to our data archive, and (2)
packaging up a set of data scripts which converts any BGP data in MRT
log format to the Link-Rank input stream.
The website also provides "activity snapshots" summarizing the amount
of routing dynamics observed at each peer. We will soon update the
snapshots to show the plot of the past 7 days on a continuous basis. In
addition, activity snapshots with your choice of parameters of
observation point and time period can be generated on the web by using
a simple query page.
Link-Rank development is continuing and we are seek your input. For
comments and suggestions, as well as bug reports, please send email to
linkrankhelp@cs.ucla.edu
Thanks
Mohit Lad
