Announcing LinkRank BGP Visualization Tool

[Mohit Lad <mohit () cs ucla edu>]

Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the public release of the Link-Rank tool 
set, presented at Nanog-32 (http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0410/lad.html).  
Link-Rank visualizes BGP routing changes to help monitor and diagnose 
global routing dynamics and is being developed by UCLA's Internet 
Research Lab in collaboration with Colorado State University's Network 
Security Lab.   LinkRank is freely available for download from:

http://linkrank.cs.ucla.edu/

Together with the tool, we also provide downloadable data of routing 
dynamics from all the peers of RouteViews Oregon Zebra collector. As of 
now data is available from January 1, 2004 till Dec 24, 2004; within 
next couple weeks it will be updated to include the previous day on a 
daily basis.  We are in the process of (1) adding data from the other 
RouteViews collectors as well as RIPE to our data archive, and (2) 
packaging up a set of data scripts which converts any BGP data in MRT 
log format to the Link-Rank input stream.

The website also provides "activity snapshots" summarizing the amount 
of routing dynamics observed at each peer. We will soon update the 
snapshots to show the plot of the past 7 days on a continuous basis. In 
addition, activity snapshots with your choice of parameters of 
observation point and time period can be generated on the web by using 
a simple query page.

Link-Rank development is continuing and we are seek your input.  For 
comments and suggestions, as well as bug reports, please send email to 
linkrankhelp () cs ucla edu

Thanks
Mohit Lad