Re: Choosing new transit: software help?

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:11:52AM -0400, David Hubbard wrote:
> From: John Dupuy
> > We are looking at getting an additional transit connection.
> >
> > In the past, we have used fixedorbit.com and the like and 
> > "guesstimated" our best transit choices. (Other factors
> > came into play as well, of course, such as price...)
> >
> > 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.
> > 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.

        perhaps you have forgotten this nifty set of pages:

        http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/as_core_network/

--bill
> David