I have been working on a project to better illustrate for our manages the provider path data takes when it flows from one of our customers to our datacenter. I have tried to use trace routes to illustrate the number of hops data takes, but when I try to show many sources on one page, it gets fairly messy quickly. I am also less concerned with the number of hops, and more concerned with the number of providers. Does anyone know of a toolset that will take a list of source IP's and a destination IP and show graphically which as numbers the packets need to traverse to reach our datacenter? I am thinking of something like this: http://www.robtex.com/as/as19629.html#graph, but instead of all the upstreams it would show something like AS16150 -> AS1239 -> AS209 -> AS19629. Dylan Ebner
Dylan Ebner wrote:
I have been working on a project to better illustrate for our manages the provider path data takes when it flows from one of our customers to our datacenter. I have tried to use trace routes to illustrate the number of hops data takes, but when I try to show many sources on one page, it gets fairly messy quickly. I am also less concerned with the number of hops, and more concerned with the number of providers. Does anyone know of a toolset that will take a list of source IP's and a destination IP and show graphically which as numbers the packets need to traverse to reach our datacenter? I am thinking of something like this: http://www.robtex.com/as/as19629.html#graph, but instead of all the upstreams it would show something like AS16150 -> AS1239 -> AS209 -> AS19629.
I like BGPlay: http://bgplay.routeviews.org/bgplay/ Steve
On 13/08/09 03:38, Dylan Ebner wrote:
I have been working on a project to better illustrate for our manages the provider path data takes when it flows from one of our customers to our datacenter. I have tried to use trace routes to illustrate the number of hops data takes, but when I try to show many sources on one page, it gets fairly messy quickly. I am also less concerned with the number of hops, and more concerned with the number of providers. Does anyone know of a toolset that will take a list of source IP's and a destination IP and show graphically which as numbers the packets need to traverse to reach our datacenter? I am thinking of something like this: http://www.robtex.com/as/as19629.html#graph, but instead of all the upstreams it would show something like AS16150 -> AS1239 -> AS209 -> AS19629.
I find Perry Lorier's traceroute mesh server (http://tr.meta.net.nz) in "Grouped by AS" mode (do a "Full Traceroute" first to find the Grouped by AS option) pretty useful as a general "how do other people reach us?" tool. I don't think it's exactly what you want, but could possibly be something to start with? -Mike
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