Request for BGP Community-to-text mappings for BGP Looking Glass
Dear all, I'd like to ask help from the EBGP hivemind: the shiny new BGP looking glass at https://lg.ring.nlnog.net/ supports displaying text strings mapped from BGP community values (both simple and large communities). Mapping BGP Community values to simple English human-readable text phrases can help network operators better understand what the heck is going on. An example can be seen here, if you hover your mouse pointer over 2914:3200 you'll see "Europe": https://lg.ring.nlnog.net/prefix?q=2001%3A67c%3A208c%3A%3A&match=exact&peer=all This looking glass does not cache results, it is real time. What's displayed on the website comes straight from the route collector's BGP daemon. Contributing mappings is very easy: just send pull-requests for files in this directory: https://github.com/NLNOG/lg.ring.nlnog.net/tree/main/communities The data format supports wildcards and ranges in case blocks of BGP communities basically mean the same thing. Please consider submitting what you know! The more the merrier. [ disclaimer & welcome sign: Anyone can contribute! You don't need to be the holder of a given ASN to submit comm2text mappings for that ASN. All data is user-submitted. No attempt is made to validate the mappings for accuracy. ] Shout out to Teun Vink for authoring this very pretty webinterface for OpenBGPD's JSON web API! Kind regards, Job
Hi, On 23 Sep 2022, at 18:01, Job Snijders via NANOG wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to ask help from the EBGP hivemind: the shiny new BGP looking glass at https://lg.ring.nlnog.net/ supports displaying text strings mapped from BGP community values (both simple and large communities).
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Please consider submitting what you know! The more the merrier. […]
Hi, Thanks for bringing this to everyone’s attention, Job! And thanks for all the help getting the LG where it is now :) As an alternative, feel free to send me (off list: teun@teun.tv) a list of communities. But creating a pull request on our Github repository is preferred of course. Thanks, Teun
On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 12:57 AM, Teun Vink <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
Hi,
On 23 Sep 2022, at 18:01, Job Snijders via NANOG wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to ask help from the EBGP hivemind: the shiny new BGP looking glass at https://lg.ring.nlnog.net/ supports displaying text strings mapped from BGP community values (both simple and large communities).
[…]
Please consider submitting what you know! The more the merrier.
[…]
Hi,
Thanks for bringing this to everyone’s attention, Job! And thanks for all the help getting the LG where it is now :)
Indeed. It's been a while since I'd last looked at the NLNOG LG and it's gotten even more impressive over time… W
As an alternative, feel free to send me (off list: teun@teun.tv) a list of communities. But creating a pull request on our Github repository is preferred of course.
Thanks, Teun
participants (3)
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Job Snijders
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Teun Vink
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Warren Kumari