Routing Tools Taxonomy

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This page gives more detailed information about specific routing tools.
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http://www.netconfigs.com/general/anoverview.htm |
| Contact: |
martin @ netconfigs.com |
| Overview: |
NetConfigs.Com aims to provide ISPs with a suite of tools to verify their
peering policies, identify errors, and apply (or request) policy changes
accordingly. Peering data (IPv4 prefixes and AS-paths) is collected from
around the world and processed into a global-view database against which AS
reports and BGP tools can be run.
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Currently free. Will be subscription based ($$).
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| URL: |
http://www.netconfigs.com/general/tkoverview.htm |
| Contact: |
martin @ netconfigs.com |
| Overview: |
NetConfigs.Com aims to provide ISPs with a suite of tools to verify their
peering policies, identify errors, and apply (or request) policy changes
accordingly. Peering data (IPv4 prefixes and AS-paths) is collected from
around the world and processed into a global-view database against which AS
reports and BGP tools can be run.
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| Access: |
Currently free. Will be subscription based ($$).
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| URL: |
http://linkrank.cs.ucla.edu/ |
| Contact: |
linkrankhelp @ cs.ucla.edu |
| Overview: |
LinkRank is a graphical tool for visualizing BGP routing changes. This tool can be used by BGP operators to understand routing dynamics as well as by people who want to learn more about BGP. LinkRank summarizes megabytes of BGP updates received from collection points and produces easy to understand graphs indicating the segments of routes affected.
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| Access: |
Freely downloadable. |
| URL: |
http://nitrous.digex.net |
| Contact: |
Ed Kern (ejk @ digex.net) |
| Overview: |
Router debugging tool. Web page offers access to Mae-East, Sprint NAP, Mae-West and PAIX router info. Queries for
access-list, bgp, bgp summary, dampened-paths, environmental, flap-statistics, mroute summary, ping, and trace
can be made for a particular IP address.
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| Access: |
Freely downloadable |
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http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/ |
| Contact: |
( rancid @ shrubbery.net ) |
| Overview: |
Rancid is a "Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ" developed to maintain CVS controlled copies of router configs. It has
been expanded to support Juniper routers, Catalyst switches, Foundry switches, and Redback NASs.
Rancid logs into each of the routers in a router table file,
runs various commands, chomps the output, and emails any diffs from
the previous collection to a mailing list.
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| Access: |
Source freely downloadable.
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| URL: |
http://www.antc.uoregon.edu/route-views/ |
| Contact: |
help @ routeviews.org |
| Overview: |
A tool for Internet operators to obtain real-time
information about the global routing system from the perspectives of several different backbones and locations
around the Internet.
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| Access: |
Contact Route Views Administrator. |
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