Hi all, I'd like to recommend some software a friend of mine, Mehdi Abaakouk, wrote: a very pretty looking BIRD looking glass! The software is available here: https://github.com/sileht/bird-lg/ A live example how cool bird-lg is can be found here: http://lg.ring.nlnog.net/prefix_bgpmap/lg01/ipv6?q=bird.network.cz http://lg.ring.nlnog.net/prefix_bgpmap/lg01/ipv4?q=bird.network.cz# Kind regards, Job ps. This LG is currently taking 23 IPv4 BGP feeds and 24 IPv6 full table feeds, without a sweat! http://tinyurl.com/d2o27q7 BIRD rocks! :-)
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 07:22:01PM +0200, Job Snijders wrote:
Hi all,
I'd like to recommend some software a friend of mine, Mehdi Abaakouk, wrote: a very pretty looking BIRD looking glass!
The software is available here: https://github.com/sileht/bird-lg/
Hello Thanks for notification, i added the link to our wiki: https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/wiki/Related If anyone has some other interesting link, please post it.
A live example how cool bird-lg is can be found here:
http://lg.ring.nlnog.net/prefix_bgpmap/lg01/ipv6?q=bird.network.cz http://lg.ring.nlnog.net/prefix_bgpmap/lg01/ipv4?q=bird.network.cz#
I like this LG, esp. because it do not try to imitate Cisco/Quagga LG.
ps. This LG is currently taking 23 IPv4 BGP feeds and 24 IPv6 full table feeds, without a sweat! http://tinyurl.com/d2o27q7 BIRD rocks! :-)
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? -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
Hi Ondrej, On 7 aug. 2012, at 12:11, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
A live example how cool bird-lg is can be found here:
http://lg.ring.nlnog.net/prefix_bgpmap/lg01/ipv6?q=bird.network.cz http://lg.ring.nlnog.net/prefix_bgpmap/lg01/ipv4?q=bird.network.cz#
I like this LG, esp. because it do not try to imitate Cisco/Quagga LG.
ps. This LG is currently taking 23 IPv4 BGP feeds and 24 IPv6 full table feeds, without a sweat! http://tinyurl.com/d2o27q7 BIRD rocks! :-)
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. Kind regards, Job
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@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
Hi Ondrej, On 7 aug. 2012, at 12:51, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
So BIRD there just receives several full BGP feeds through EBGP multihop session and exports nothing?
Spot on.
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)?
Sure. job@lg01:~$ birdc show memory BIRD 1.3.7 ready. BIRD memory usage Routing tables: 816 MB Route attributes: 580 MB ROA tables: 192 B Protocols: 276 kB Total: 1397 MB job@lg01:~$ birdc6 show memory BIRD 1.3.7 ready. BIRD memory usage Routing tables: 21 MB Route attributes: 65 MB ROA tables: 192 B Protocols: 294 kB Total: 86 MB job@lg01:~$ job@lg01:~$ ps axuw | grep /usr/sbin/bird USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 774 0.1 71.5 1477084 1468756 ? Ss Jul27 29:21 /usr/sbin/bird -d root 783 0.0 4.5 101544 93148 ? Ss Jul27 6:22 /usr/sbin/bird6 -d job@lg01:~$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2003 1720 283 0 7 51 -/+ buffers/cache: 1662 341 Swap: 486 30 456 job@lg01:~$ All system statistics are available here: http://public01.infra.ring.nlnog.net/munin/infra.ring.nlnog.net/lg01.infra.r... The machine's sole purpose is to run the bird and bird6 instances, it does not run any other services (except puppet, small MTA and SSH) Kind regards, Job
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 12:33:37PM +0200, Job Snijders wrote:
Hi Ondrej,
On 7 aug. 2012, at 12:51, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
So BIRD there just receives several full BGP feeds through EBGP multihop session and exports nothing?
Spot on.
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)?
Sure.
job@lg01:~$ birdc show memory BIRD 1.3.7 ready. BIRD memory usage Routing tables: 816 MB Route attributes: 580 MB ROA tables: 192 B Protocols: 276 kB Total: 1397 MB
I guess it is 64-bit machine? -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
Le 04/08/2012 19:22, Job Snijders a écrit :
I'd like to recommend some software a friend of mine, Mehdi Abaakouk, wrote: a very pretty looking BIRD looking glass!
On a more personal note, Mehdi is the System's God on AS197422, aka Tetaneutral.net, a not-for-profit community ISP based in Toulouse, France. We use BIRD for every routing nodes within AS197422 and are thrilled to see BIRD evolve to such a remarkable software. The "original" bird-lg instance is running at http://lg.tetaneutral.net/ . The BGPMap feature was inspired by Salim Gasmi's work on http://bgpmap.sdv.fr/ and Job's work on ring-trace (https://ring.nlnog.net/news/2011/11/ring-trace/) , and was coded by Mehdi during the last edition of the Toulouse Hacker Space Factory, a 3 days conference / exhibition taking place in Toulouse every year (more on that : http://thsf.tetalab.org/ ). You may reach Mehdi "sileht" Abaakouk (or me, FTM, aka chiwawa) on irc.freenode.net/#tetaneutral.net (mostly in french) Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 (0)6 19 31 27 14
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