Open Source BGP Route Optimization?

Olivier Bonaventure Bonaventure at info.ucl.ac.be
Thu May 27 07:21:28 UTC 2004


Noel,
> 
> Does anybody happen to know of any open source project working on a BGP
> route optimizer like what Route Science or Internap or the likes have
> commercially?


The TOTEM project (see http://totem.info.ucl.ac.be/ ) is building a set
of open source traffic engineering tools. Our focus is currently on
tools that can allow ISPs to engineer/capacity plan their network by :
- tuning BGP configuration
- tuning IGP weights
- establishing intra- and inter-domain MPLS tunnels

The TOTEM toolbox will evolve over a three years period and the first
version will be available this fall from the project web site.

Concerning BGP, the project has already developped a tool called C-BGP
(http://cbgp.info.ucl.ac.be) that can be used to simulate the behavior
of BGP in large networks. C-BGP supports a configuration language
similar to current routers and we have used it to simulated networks
with 10.000 routers. We are currently using CBGP to perform what-if
analysis to evaluate the impact of link, router and peering failures in
transit networks. 

We are interested in discussing with ISPs who would like to use/test
such an opensource traffic engineering toolbox on ther network.


Best regards,


Olivier Bonaventure
-- 
CSE Dept. UCL, Belgium - http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/OBO/




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