[85584] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Choosing new transit: software help?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hubbard)
Fri Oct 14 11:12:17 2005
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:11:52 -0400
From: "David Hubbard" <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
From: John Dupuy
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> We are looking at getting an additional transit connection.
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> In the past, we have used fixedorbit.com and the like and=20
> "guesstimated" our best transit choices. (Other factors
> came into play as well, of course, such as price...)
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> Anyway, does anyone have a suggestion for determine our next=20
> best transit? Essentially, I am looking for techniques of:
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> 1. Gathering our current traffic patterns and subtotalling=20
> source/destination IP by ASN.
> 2. Gathering our BGP views into a useful form for analysis.
> 3. Using #1 and #2 to analyze which new AS would make the=20
> most sense to connect to for transit. The goal would be for
> the new transit to reduce the number of AS we must transit
> given our customer's actual usage.
I know most nanog responses seem to go off list immediately
but I'd be interested in this as well for traffic engineering.
A top AS and top prefix talkers would be really useful.
David
