[Outages] Link-Rank 1.0 alpha for visualizing BGP routing changes

[Mohit Lad]

Sorry for not mentioning it in my mail, Its java based and works on  
Linux. Feel free to contact me off the list if you run into any  
problems.

Thanks

Mohit

On Mar 30, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Raman Sud wrote:

> Mohit,
>
> Is this a linux based tool?
>
> Thanks
>
> Raman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mohit Lad [mailto:mohit at cs.ucla.edu]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 4:04 PM
> To: Outages at isotf.org
> Subject: [Outages] Link-Rank 1.0 alpha for visualizing BGP routing
> changes
>
> Dear all,
>
> Apologies if you have already received this. We recently released an
> alpha version of Link-Rank 1.0 tool.
>
> Summary: Link-Rank works by weighing AS-AS links from each BGP router
> by the number of BGP routes carried, and visualizes routing events as
> changes in AS-AS link weights. Red edges represent loss of routes
> while green edges represent gain of routes. The tool can currently
> visualize data starting from January 1, 2007 from RouteViews' Oregon
> collector, with a time lag of 1-2 hours.
>
> The tool can be downloaded from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/link-rank/
> More information about the Link-Rank project can be found on the  
> website
> http://linkrank.cs.ucla.edu/
>
> The new version has various improvements over existing version  
> including
>
> 1. Better handling of very large routing events.
> 2. Ability to save and load graphs. Some sample events are included
> in the "Examples" directory.
> 3. Near real-time continuous visualization (This feature is being
> tested and will be available in the beta release soon).
> 4. Redesigned GUI based on feedback from previous release.
>
> We expect to move to beta release in a few weeks and would really
> appreciate any bug reports or feature requests. The full source code
> of the tool will be available with the beta release. We will also be
> releasing a set of scripts and instructions to be able to use the
> tool with your own BGP data.
> We hope you find this tool useful. Feel free to send us an email at
> linkrankhelp-at-cs-dot-ucla-dot-edu
>
> Thanks
>
> Link-Rank team
>
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