Re: Traceroute with ASN

["Larry J. Blunk" <ljb () merit edu>]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:03 -0800, Bruce Pinsky wrote:
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> Brett Watson wrote:
> | On 3/15/05 3:11 AM, "Ziggy David Lubowa" <ziggy () trueafrican com> wrote:
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> |>On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:51:32 +0800 (CST), Joe Shen wrote
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> |>>Yes.  Can I do this on a Linux box without having to
> |>>install Zebra BGP on it?
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> |>Doesnt look like you have to,  below is the link to the tarball
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> |>http://oppleman.com/dl/?file=lft-2.3.tar.gz
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> | I believe the author of LFT is working on a new release that does *not* use
> | the oft-times incorrect radb data, but instead pulls from a router (not sure
> | of the source) somewhere.
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> Would probably be nice to have a command-line option to specify the source
> from either:
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> - - an RADB formatted source
> - - a Zebra or Quaaga BGP daemon
> - - via SNMP from a BGP capable device

  A 4th option would be the Routeviews DNS based mapping service
at asn.routeviews.org.   See --

 http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2003-09/msg00832.html

  An advantage here is that you get caching for free.