Tools for Collection and Manipulation of RouteViews Data
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Cisco BRIB $ Dampened Routes Collection
A script is run every two hours to collect the (full) BGP RIB and dampened routes.
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BGP Beacon
A BGP beacon is a compact BGP speaker that announces and withdrawls a beacon prefix at specific intervals. The behavior of this prefix can then be analyzed closely.
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Compression Utilities
The data archives collected by RouteViews are compressed with either gzip (.gz) or bzip2 (.bz2).
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MRT data files
Zebra bRIB and BGP update dumps are in the well-known MRT format. These are binary files which can be converted to ASCII with these tools.
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Zebra Bits
Zebra does not create directories prerequisite for it's MRT dumps. mkzebradirs does this for us.
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CAIDA Atoms Tools
CAIDA maintains a set of tools on their Atoms download page. The straightenRV(1) tool can be used to parse the 'sh ip bgp' format RIBs.
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RIPEstat
RIPE's full-featured looking glass site
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CAIDA's BGPReader
CAIDA's BGPReader is a command line tool that prints to standard output information about the BGP records and the BGP elems that are part of a BGP stream.
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BGPMon
BGPmon helps you assess the routing health of your network, providing you with information which allows you to determine the stability of your networks and potential risks to your data.
