Re: Setting Up a Looking Glass

["Mark Foster" <blakjak () blakjak net>]

If only it wasn't on sourceforge?

http://ow.ly/OhNcR

(or the original link,
http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don’t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/)



On Sun, June 14, 2015 2:40 pm, Hicks, Byron wrote:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/routerproxy/
>
> Is my looking glass/router proxy of choice.
>
>
> > On Jun 13, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:
> > > > > Here's a relatively new and fresh perspective on it:
> > > > > https://github.com/ramnode/LookingGlass
> > > > > You can see it in action here:
> > > > > http://lg.nyc.ramnode.com/
> > > > looking glass without routing, indeed a new perspective :(
> > >
> > > with a bit more coffee, perhaps i can expand a bit.
> > >
> > > for widely distributed data plane probes (ping/traceroute/...), we have
> > > good alternatives, nlring, ripe atlas, traceroute.org, etc.  as an op,
> > > nlring is my fave of the month as i can go from question to result in
> > > minimal typing and a matter of seconds.
> > >
> > > 'looking glass' has traditionally meant a control plane (routing) view.
> > > this is a rarer beast, and setting one up is often a bit crude.
> >
> > Indeed.  As with most things there are always more than one meaning,
> > and of course even those change with time.    I read into the OP's
> > words that he was looking for a locally hosted capability that he
> > could easily give out to his people in order to trouble shoot
> > connectivity.
> >
> > -Jim P.
>
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