[85591] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Choosing new transit: software help?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hayes Merritt, III)
Fri Oct 14 12:02:13 2005
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:57:22 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Sam Hayes Merritt, III" <sam@themerritts.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>> Anyway, does anyone have a suggestion for determine our next
>> best transit? Essentially, I am looking for techniques of:
>>
>> 1. Gathering our current traffic patterns and subtotalling
>> source/destination IP by ASN.
Flowscan will do this. Origin and path.
>> 2. Gathering our BGP views into a useful form for analysis.
>> 3. Using #1 and #2 to analyze which new AS would make the
>> 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.
Flowscan will do the top AS, out of the box.
It could be hacked to go further.
sam
