Yes, I saw those.. But I'm looking for something that actually can ping a set of hosts throughout the Internet and manipulate BGP accordingly. I realize that InternNAP and RouteScience use fixed agents throughout the Internet to measure these things, but I think a simple ping would do. I can't be the only one tired of manually manipulating BGP. I can't be the only one that can't afford something commercially to do this! -Noel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Vixie" <vixie@vix.com> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 1:38 AM Subject: Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization?
Does anybody happen to know of any open source project working on a BGP route optimizer like what Route Science or Internap or the likes have commercially?
five minutes in google turned up the following:
http://www.inlab.de/balance.html (this is a tcp proxy, not a bgp thing) http://www.stanford.edu/~schemers/docs/lbnamed/lbnamed.html (Stupid DNS
Tricks)
http://www.backhand.org/mod_backhand/ (an apache module for redirection) http://www.supersparrow.org/ (uses but doesn't generate bgp information) http://www.bgpdns.org/ (Stupid DNS Tricks again, but based on bgp data)
probably a whole hour spent on such research would turn up even more. -- Paul Vixie