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Re: End of life: 'sh ip bgp' collection on route-views.routeviews.org

  • From: David Meyer
  • Date: Thu Mar 27 11:29:37 2008 
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:42:36AM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 06:21:41AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > 
> > >> We're planning to end of life collection of 'sh ip bgp'
> > >> RIBs from route-views.routeviews.org. We will of course
> > >> keep the data we have. 
> > >> 
> > >> Please let us know if you are still using these data. 
> > 
> > researchers do use rib shots.
> > 
> > it's feb 32nd 2012, and i want r-v's rib, i go back to 2008 and run in
> > all the updates since the last snap?  and this is viable, let alone
> > reliable?
> 
> 	Parsing the MRT rib snapshots is much easier and more
> predictable for an automated fashion than some CLI interface that
> can (and does) change unpredictably over time.
> 
> 	The MRT data is far more valuable because it is easier to
> automate analysis.
	
	Jarad,

	Thanks for the feedback. That was our sense as well, but
	I know that (in the past, anyway) some folks had built
	tools that used 'sh ip bgp' format input data. We didn't
	want to break those. As I mentioned to Randy, we're
	thinking we can generate 'sh ip bgp' format from MRT data
	(but there is still the "peer partity" issue; we're
	working that now). 

	One other note on all of this. Part of the reason we
	wanted to take down the screen scraping to get the 'sh ip
	bgp' stuff is that route-views.routeviews.org is under
	quite a bit of CPU and memory stress. While we're in the
	process of trying to upgrade that box, resources are
	tight and it would be useful if we could free up the
	resources used in collecting that data.

	Dave

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