Re: new BGP hijack & visibility tool “BGPalerter”

Fri Aug 16 09:02:41 UTC 2019

Hi,

On 2019-08-15 17:38, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> This looks like fun!
> (a few questions for the RIPE folk, I think though below)
> 
> What is the expected load of streaming clients on the RIPE service? (I
> wonder because I was/am messing about with something similar, though
> less node and js... not that that's relevant here).

One of the (IMO) most useful features is that you can filter what you
want to receive. In fact this makes the service useful :-) So unless you
want to tune in to a significant portion of BGP chatter, the load should
not be substantial.

> I hadn't seen the ripe folk pipe up anywhere with what their SLO/etc
> is for the ris-live service? (except their quip about: "used to run in
> a tmux session I had to occassioanlly ssh into <foo> and restart when
> <foo> rebooted" I believe the end of that quip in Iceland was: "and
> now its' running as a real service")

It's in between those. We now have a conscious setup which should also
be able to scale up, but bits and pieces (like full monitoring of the
service) are still being developed.

> Also, one of the strengths to the 'monitoring as a service' folks is
> their number of collection points and breadth of ASN to which they
> interconnect those points/ RISLive, I think, reports out from ~37 or
> so RIPE probes, how do we (the internet) get more deployed (or better
> interconnection to the current sets)? and maybe even more
> imoprtantly... what's the right spread/location/interconnectivity map
> for these probes?

RIS Live provides data from RIS, which has a bunch of collectors around
the world (see
https://www.ripe.net/analyse/internet-measurements/routing-information-service-ris/ris-peering-policy)
with many hundreds of peering sessions. But it is by no means complete
in terms of coverage.

If and how the community (NANOG or RIPE or else) should work on optimal
data collection is indeed a useful discussion to have.

Cheers,
Robert

> thanks! for showing what's possible with tooling being developed by
> like minded individuals :)
> 
> -chris