bird-lg, another looking glass

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Tue Aug 7 12:51:11 CEST 2012


On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 12:07:54PM +0200, Job Snijders wrote:
> > Just curious - what is this BIRD installation (ring.nlnog.net)?
> > It seems that it receives full BGP feeds, so i guess it is not
> > a common route server. Some distributed BGP monitoring?
> 

> The NLNOG RING is an international distributed network debugging
> effort. In a nutshell: to join a participant must make a (virtual)
> machine available, and after that the participant gains access to all
> other machines from all participants. This way you have shell access to
> machines in 110+ ASNs in 26 countries. As a participant you can run a
> variety of tests: latency, mtu, traceroute, jitter, etc from all hosts
> towards a target. Aside from that the RING maintains other services such
> as this general purpose looking glass. 

So BIRD there just receives several full BGP feeds through EBGP multihop session
and exports nothing? Just curious, could you send me an output of
'show memory' BIRD command and also memory estimate of BIRD from the OS
(using ps, top or something like that)?

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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