BGP Data AnalysisBGP:Inspect is a Web-based software tool that make the vast quantities of Internet routing data easily accessible to the network operator and research community. While large datasets comprising raw routing data are freely available and easy to obtain, extracting any useful information from the data can be tedious. Users often have to implement their own custom data processing tools and scripts to extract the information they need.Developed by Merit Network and the University of Maryland, BGP::Inspect is used by engineers and researchers not only to obtain raw data, but also to perform commonly used summary statistics that help guide deeper custom analyses. This makes it possible to locate anomalies and problems that affect everyday Internet performance. BGP::Inspect's real-time routing data is archived at the University of Oregon's RouteViews Project, one of the world's largest repositories of Internet routing data. BGP::Inspect's user interface has been kept simple, and automates two types of RouteViews queries: "Summary Queries" and "Raw Data Analyses." Summary queries allow users to quickly focus on potential troublespots, as observed by the hundreds of computers that provide the RouteViews data. Basic queries include the most active Autonomous Systems (ASs), most active routing prefixes, and prefixes that exhibit the most number of changes in their OriginAS. The second type of query, "Raw Data Analysis," can be used to obtain information regarding specific ASes or prefixes for a given time range. For more information, see the BGP::Inspect home page. |