Hi, I am interested in commercial tools for managing BGP. I would be interested to hear which commercial tools BGP administrators recommend or like; and why they like them. I would be equally interested to learn which tools people don't like, and why. If people don't feel able to name tools, then I would still be grateful for a description of unhelpful features or an outline of why functionality is to limited. This should not require giving product names. Finally, I would be most interested if people think there are no commercial tools which are of much use. thanks in advance for your help.
BGP BGPlay a web based service, freely available to the community since 2004, which allows graphical inspection of interdomain routing evolution using public BGP data collected by www.routeviews.org and by www.ris.ripe.net. BGPmon can monitor your prefixes and alert you in case of a 'interesting' path change. Recently this has received quite some attention. Specifically after the Youtube hijack and the demo given at defcon. iBGPlay based on the same visualization technology of BGPlay it is designed to inspect the interdomain routing evolution using private BGP data collected from ISP's routers. iBGPlay can show the outgoing traffic paths for all internet destinations and is especially suited for content providers. Subscription to iBGPlay is free. LinkRank BGP dynamics visualization tool "LinkRank" also presented at Nanog 32 at Reston, VA (http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0410/lad.html). FDBGet This little gadget will try to retrieve the forwarding table entries (Mac to interface number) of switches (layer 2 devices). This comes in handy when you want to know to which interface of a switch a particular NIC (e.g. computer) is attached to. Now suppports parameters for command line use. Dig Netdisco is an Open Source web-based network management tool. Designed for moderate to large networks, configuration information and connection data for network devices are retrieved by SNMP. With Netdisco you can locate the switch port of an end-user system by IP or MAC address. Data is stored using a SQL database for scalability and speed. It also provide optional use of the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP). D-ITG (Distributed Internet Traffic Generator) is a platform (collection of tools) capable of producing traffic (network, transport and application layer) and of accurately replicating appropriate stochastic processes for both IDT (Inter Departure Time) and PS (Packet Size) random variables (exponential, uniform, cauchy, normal, pareto, ...). Dummmynet A FreeBSD system for emulating the effects of bandwidth limitations, propagation delays, bounded-size queues, and packet losses. Jay Murphy IP Network Specialist "We move the information that moves your world." -----Original Message----- From: Irfan Zakiuddin [mailto:irfan.zakiuddin@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:30 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: tools for BGP Hi, I am interested in commercial tools for managing BGP. I would be interested to hear which commercial tools BGP administrators recommend or like; and why they like them. I would be equally interested to learn which tools people don't like, and why. If people don't feel able to name tools, then I would still be grateful for a description of unhelpful features or an outline of why functionality is to limited. This should not require giving product names. Finally, I would be most interested if people think there are no commercial tools which are of much use. thanks in advance for your help. ______________________________________________________________________ This inbound email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. ______________________________________________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System.
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Irfan Zakiuddin
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Murphy, Jay, DOH