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The interdomain routing protocol BGP, which is the de-facto standard, delivers to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) the flexibility to properly control traffic, at least to some extent, via policy specification.
Unfortunately, unrestricted policy routing is renowned to be fault-prone, difficultly predictable, and to possibly exhibit undesirable behaviors like lack of convergence and robustness.
In order to investigate routing dynamics over time, the Routing Information Service of RIPE NCC and the RouteViews Project of Oregon University projects spread worldwide many collection boxes which continuously gather routing data from the network. Collected data are permanently stored and made publicly available. Those collection boxes currently receive an average of about 1,500 updates per minute, with peaks of more than 50,000 updates per minute. Manually analyzing such data is unfeasible beacause of their huge amount.
To overcome such problem, we developed BGPath, an online service to visually analyse streams of BGP updates.
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Last Update: 05 January 2009