Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Toolkit website allows debugging of Internet routes and peering relationships
FREMONT, Calif.–April 5, 2012(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6 Internet backbone and leading colocation provider, today announced enhancements to its BGP toolkit, which can aid in the analysis, debugging and reverse engineering of Internet routes and peering relationships.
“The site is based on in-house code that we have been using to debug problems for over two years, and we wanted to make it available to the public for free. It’s a very cool resource that gives an excellent user experience.”
The site, designed for use by peering coordinators and routing engineers, features intuitive route graphs that show to whom Autonomous Systems are connected and how routes propagate. Peering relationships can be investigated to determine how routes are swapped and how transits are handling particular routes.
The site’s powerful tools are especially valuable to computer security engineers. For example, the site identifies multi-origin routes, which are often the result of either configuration mistakes or deliberate attempts by hackers to hijack traffic. The site also features information of interest to engineers responsible for configuring Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) and Secure Inter-Domain Routing (SIDR).
