Re: new BGP hijack & visibility tool “BGPalerter”

[Robert Kisteleki <robert () ripe net>]

On 2019-08-16 14:13, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:02:41 +0200, Robert Kisteleki said:
> > 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 think Chris's question is more "Is RIPE going to be OK if a lot of people ask
> for the extra-chatty feed?"

Yes, good point. Of course it could be a problem if too many clients ask
for too much data like a full feed... we're not prepared to provide that
on a large scale. For the moment we're looking at the effects of what
people need and if we can handle it with what we have built.

Robert

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