Setting Up a Looking Glass

Hicks, Byron byron.hicks at tx-learn.net
Sun Jun 14 02:40:22 UTC 2015


http://sourceforge.net/projects/routerproxy/

Is my looking glass/router proxy of choice.  


> On Jun 13, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
>>>> Here's a relatively new and fresh perspective on it:
>>>> https://github.com/ramnode/LookingGlass
>>>> You can see it in action here:
>>>> http://lg.nyc.ramnode.com/
>>> looking glass without routing, indeed a new perspective :(
>> 
>> with a bit more coffee, perhaps i can expand a bit.
>> 
>> for widely distributed data plane probes (ping/traceroute/...), we have
>> good alternatives, nlring, ripe atlas, traceroute.org, etc.  as an op,
>> nlring is my fave of the month as i can go from question to result in
>> minimal typing and a matter of seconds.
>> 
>> 'looking glass' has traditionally meant a control plane (routing) view.
>> this is a rarer beast, and setting one up is often a bit crude.
> 
> Indeed.  As with most things there are always more than one meaning,
> and of course even those change with time.    I read into the OP's
> words that he was looking for a locally hosted capability that he
> could easily give out to his people in order to trouble shoot
> connectivity.
> 
> -Jim P.

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