End of life: 'sh ip bgp' collection on route-views.routeviews.org
Folks, We're planning to end of life collection of 'sh ip bgp' RIBs from route-views.routeviews.org. We will of course keep the data we have. Please let us know if you are still using these data. Thanks, Dave
We're planning to end of life collection of 'sh ip bgp' RIBs from route-views.routeviews.org. We will of course keep the data we have.
Please let us know if you are still using these data.
researchers do use rib shots. it's feb 32nd 2012, and i want r-v's rib, i go back to 2008 and run in all the updates since the last snap? and this is viable, let alone reliable? randy
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 06:21:41AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
We're planning to end of life collection of 'sh ip bgp' RIBs from route-views.routeviews.org. We will of course keep the data we have.
Please let us know if you are still using these data.
researchers do use rib shots.
it's feb 32nd 2012, and i want r-v's rib, i go back to 2008 and run in all the updates since the last snap? and this is viable, let alone reliable?
Randy, Its the Cisco 'sh ip bgp' format RIBs that we're planning to end-of-life, not the MRT format RIBs. Is that still a problem? In addition, we're looking at whether we can generate the 'sh ip bgp' format RIBs from the MRT format RIBs in the event someone has tools that take that format as input. One important issue is that rv2.routeviews.org (where many of the MRT format RIBs are generated) has a different peer set than route-views.routeviews.org (where the 'sh ip bgp' RIBs come from). I'm working on trying to regularize those now. In any event, please let me know if the end-of-life of the 'sh ip bgp' format RIBs is a problem. Thanks, Dave
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 06:21:41AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
We're planning to end of life collection of 'sh ip bgp' RIBs from route-views.routeviews.org. We will of course keep the data we have.
Please let us know if you are still using these data.
researchers do use rib shots.
it's feb 32nd 2012, and i want r-v's rib, i go back to 2008 and run in all the updates since the last snap? and this is viable, let alone reliable?
Parsing the MRT rib snapshots is much easier and more predictable for an automated fashion than some CLI interface that can (and does) change unpredictably over time. The MRT data is far more valuable because it is easier to automate analysis. - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:42:36AM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 06:21:41AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
We're planning to end of life collection of 'sh ip bgp' RIBs from route-views.routeviews.org. We will of course keep the data we have.
Please let us know if you are still using these data.
researchers do use rib shots.
it's feb 32nd 2012, and i want r-v's rib, i go back to 2008 and run in all the updates since the last snap? and this is viable, let alone reliable?
Parsing the MRT rib snapshots is much easier and more predictable for an automated fashion than some CLI interface that can (and does) change unpredictably over time.
The MRT data is far more valuable because it is easier to automate analysis.
Jarad, Thanks for the feedback. That was our sense as well, but I know that (in the past, anyway) some folks had built tools that used 'sh ip bgp' format input data. We didn't want to break those. As I mentioned to Randy, we're thinking we can generate 'sh ip bgp' format from MRT data (but there is still the "peer partity" issue; we're working that now). One other note on all of this. Part of the reason we wanted to take down the screen scraping to get the 'sh ip bgp' stuff is that route-views.routeviews.org is under quite a bit of CPU and memory stress. While we're in the process of trying to upgrade that box, resources are tight and it would be useful if we could free up the resources used in collecting that data. Dave
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