Choosing new transit: software help?

Fri Oct 14 15:57:22 UTC 2005

>> 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.

Flowscan will do this. Origin and path.

>> 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.

Flowscan will do the top AS, out of the box.
It could be hacked to go further.

sam