Choosing new transit: software help?
David Hubbard
dhubbard at dino.hostasaurus.com
Fri Oct 14 15:11:52 UTC 2005
From: John Dupuy
>
> We are looking at getting an additional transit connection.
>
> In the past, we have used fixedorbit.com and the like and
> "guesstimated" our best transit choices. (Other factors
> came into play as well, of course, such as price...)
>
> Anyway, does anyone have a suggestion for determine our next
> best transit? Essentially, I am looking for techniques of:
>
> 1. Gathering our current traffic patterns and subtotalling
> source/destination IP by ASN.
> 2. Gathering our BGP views into a useful form for analysis.
> 3. Using #1 and #2 to analyze which new AS would make the
> most sense to connect to for transit. The goal would be for
> the new transit to reduce the number of AS we must transit
> given our customer's actual usage.
I know most nanog responses seem to go off list immediately
but I'd be interested in this as well for traffic engineering.
A top AS and top prefix talkers would be really useful.
David
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