Hello! 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? Just sounds like the sort of thing somebody would have though of, but I've never seen any mention of it.. Regards, Noel Montales Waveform Technology LLC
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
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
On Tue, 25 May 2004 15:37:10 -0400, you wrote:
Hello!
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?
Just sounds like the sort of thing somebody would have though of, but I've never seen any mention of it..
I was looking for the same thing last year and all I found at that time was the paper listed below. http://www.martin.lorensen.dk/thesis/ Mike
Noel,
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?
The TOTEM project (see http://totem.info.ucl.ac.be/ ) is building a set of open source traffic engineering tools. Our focus is currently on tools that can allow ISPs to engineer/capacity plan their network by : - tuning BGP configuration - tuning IGP weights - establishing intra- and inter-domain MPLS tunnels The TOTEM toolbox will evolve over a three years period and the first version will be available this fall from the project web site. Concerning BGP, the project has already developped a tool called C-BGP (http://cbgp.info.ucl.ac.be) that can be used to simulate the behavior of BGP in large networks. C-BGP supports a configuration language similar to current routers and we have used it to simulated networks with 10.000 routers. We are currently using CBGP to perform what-if analysis to evaluate the impact of link, router and peering failures in transit networks. We are interested in discussing with ISPs who would like to use/test such an opensource traffic engineering toolbox on ther network. Best regards, Olivier Bonaventure -- CSE Dept. UCL, Belgium - http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/OBO/
This should help http://www.bgp4.as/tools Olivier Bonaventure wrote:
Noel,
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?
The TOTEM project (see http://totem.info.ucl.ac.be/ ) is building a set of open source traffic engineering tools. Our focus is currently on tools that can allow ISPs to engineer/capacity plan their network by : - tuning BGP configuration - tuning IGP weights - establishing intra- and inter-domain MPLS tunnels
The TOTEM toolbox will evolve over a three years period and the first version will be available this fall from the project web site.
Concerning BGP, the project has already developped a tool called C-BGP (http://cbgp.info.ucl.ac.be) that can be used to simulate the behavior of BGP in large networks. C-BGP supports a configuration language similar to current routers and we have used it to simulated networks with 10.000 routers. We are currently using CBGP to perform what-if analysis to evaluate the impact of link, router and peering failures in transit networks.
We are interested in discussing with ISPs who would like to use/test such an opensource traffic engineering toolbox on ther network.
Best regards,
Olivier Bonaventure
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