Global Route Collector

The global route collector is a common resource for collecting route data from across the DN42 network. This data can then be used to provide statistics and a global map of the DN42 network.

Providing Routes to the Collector

All DN42 users are invited to provide routes to the collector; the more users that take part, the more useful the collector becomes.

1. Contact burble@hackint or mail dn42@burble.com, including your AS number and BGP peer address(es)

The collector runs bird2 and supports multiprotocol BGP; the preference is for multiprotocol peering over IPv6. If you can't support multiprotocol BGP, please provide both IPv4 and IPv6 peer addresses.

2. Configure a BGP session for the collector on your router.

Some example client configurations are included in the 'examples' directory. Users are encouraged to configure the BGP Add-Path extension to provide a comprehensive set of routes to the collector.

3. Profit !

Route Collector Services

Looking Glass

http://collector.dn42:5001/ (DN42 link) https://grc.burble.com/ (public internet link)

The burble.dn42 looking glass is based on bird-lg with patches by Zhaofeng and Burble to fix formating and bird2 compatibility.

Prometheus Metrics

http://collector.dn42:9324/metrics

The collector runs bird_exporter and the metrics are publically available on the default bird_exporter port.