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This section concerns tools for analyzing and visualizing Internet routing. A summary is
provided along with web page pointers
to more detailed information. Review comments are also included when available.
This listing has not been actively maintained since 2004. These pages are made available for historical purposes.
Router Measurements
| Tool | Input | Measurement | Output | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active / Passive | Functions | |||
| AS Peering Analysis | Global BGP routes | passive | AS reports, AS ranking | peering analysis report (web pages) |
| BGP Toolkit | Global BGP routes | passive | BGP config and peering filters | Cisco fixed filter configurations |
| LinkRank | BGP | passive | visualizing BGP routing changes | java client |
| looking glass | IP address | passive | access-list, bgp, bgp summary, dampened-paths, environmental, flag-statistics, mroute summary, ping, trace | web pages |
| rancid | Router config file maintenance tool | passive | find diffs in router configs | email of diffs |
| Route Explorer | passive, listen only BGP peering | passive | BGP RIB visualization, full BGP event history, before and after RIB comparison, Event stream root cause analysis in tabular and animation | GUI |
| Route Views | views from multiple service providers | passive | determine how global routing system views prefix(es) | various |
| SP Guru Network Planner | RMON probes, packet traces, direct capture, configuration files, network management data, SNMP | passive | future traffic projection and right sizing of links and tunnels to meet service level objectives; automated off-line MPLS traffic engineering; network survivability analysis; validation of the impact of configuration changes; evaluation of "what-if" scenarios in a virtual network environment; multi-layer analysis and planning for IP/MPLS over DWDM networks; automated IPv6 readiness assessment | GUI, graphs, charts, web reports |