Setting Up a Looking Glass
Theodore Baschak
theodore at ciscodude.net
Sat Jun 13 20:39:13 UTC 2015
> On Jun 13, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
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> What's out there for setting up your own looking glass? I saw lots of lists of dead projects or projects that hadn't received any love in years. Being as most the people I work with don't run Cisco, Juniper, etc. for routers, likely having those capabilities with the LG would be nice.
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> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
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If you want/need BGP, OpenBSD + OpenBGPD (with their bgplg cgi/restricted shell) is fairly easy to set up. You mesh the looking glass in like any other router in your system, and it gives you full visibility. I wrote a how-to that you can basically copy and paste into a new 1vCPU/1GB vRAM OpenBSD VM which a lot of people have found helpful in setting this type of thing up:
https://ciscodude.net/2014/05/14/openbsd-5-dot-5-bgplg/ <https://ciscodude.net/2014/05/14/openbsd-5-dot-5-bgplg/>
This was written for 5.5 but also works on 5.6. I will be checking what changes with 5.7 in the coming weeks as time permits, and will write a followup article if need be.
bgplg also is brandable, there is a template file you can edit to change the logos, and add additional information about your network if desired.
Similar to what I’ve written about with OpenBSD, you could also peer a system running BIRD (not announcing anything) into your network, and run ulg.py (https://github.com/tmshlvck/ulg <https://github.com/tmshlvck/ulg>).
Theo Baschak
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