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On 5/13/11 10:43 AM, "Justin Krejci" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 15:11 +0000, Mike Horwath wrote:
>> On 5/12/11 6:57 PM, "Justin Krejci" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>> >As I understand it there is currently no public looking glass or route
>> >server for MICE users or the public in general. Any interest in setting
>> >something up? I could donate a server or some time to the cause. They
>>are
>> >quite useful in troubleshooting routing issues or network changes.
>> 
>> You are correct, there isn't.
>> 
>> This could easily run on the system that handles the statistics easily
>> enough, just I have no idea how I would tie bird into a LG setup.
>> 
>
>Looks like using its CLI will not be immediately compatible with most
>(all?) LG tools out there which are seemingly mostly geared around
>Cisco, Juniper, and Zebra/Quagga systems it seems. Unless someone knows
>of a really great and flexible LG app.

Yah, that was my finding as well.

>Perhaps a small C/J router could peer up with the two servers to suck in
>the routes and be used as the LG source and as a publicly telnet
>accessible route server as well.

There will be a Juniper in place soon - once that is done, we can look at
putting it into the 'route' subsystem (this is *not* a requirement for
operation of the peering point, in fact, it could create other issues if
something breaks) but we could then query that for data.

> 
>ALso OpenBSD has a good bgp daemon with their own bgplg toools (web and
>cli) included.
>http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgp&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD
>+Current&arch=amd64&apropos=1&format=html

We aren't using OpenBSD anywhere though...we are using BIRD.

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