Open Source BGP Route Optimization?

Bob Martin bob at buckhorn.net
Thu May 27 16:33:03 UTC 2004


This should help

http://www.bgp4.as/tools

Olivier Bonaventure wrote:

> 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




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