Details of GIX project
This project is based on data from participant’s BGP sessions and data taken from BGP prefix table snapshots from Route Views Project and RIPE NCC RIS Project.

To reduce time required for computations and to keep maps as readable as possible I limit AS path length to 3rd level ASNs (I remove all prepends previously). 1st level is ASN of project participant. 2nd level is ASN directly connected with 1st level ASN (I put on maps all 2nd level ASNs). 3rd level is ASN which peer with 2nd level ASN and 3rd level ASNs appear on maps only when there is no less than 20 prefixes from or through this ASN available.

Maps of the Internet connections visible from GIX participant’s networks are generated every two hours, ten minutes after full hour. Maps based on RIPE NCC and Route Views projects are updated from time to time and they are used to show input direction on maps.
Note: all maps are in beta version and will be improved to achieve project goals.

Looking glass is available, so you can check how your network is reachable. MySQL databases is updated in real time based on information provided by ExaBGP. Previous looking glasses KLG and MRLG are turned off, because all sessions were migrated to ExaBGP.

IPv4 network
GIX (summary) – PNG SVG

EPIX Internet Exchange and Transit Point – AS50607 – PNG SVG
ART-COM – AS33923 – PNG SVG
BORKOW (currently not active) – AS51636 – PNG SVG
CITYNET – AS197572 – PNG SVG
EXA-NETWORKS – AS30740 – PNG SVG
INDS association – AS39489 – PNG SVG
PROMONT – AS47466 – PNG SVG
REWOLUCJA-NET – AS51101 – PNG SVG
TVK – AS29512 – PNG SVG

RouteViews – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC00 – RIPE NCC, Amsterdam – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC01 – LINX, London – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC02 – SFINX, Paris – PNG SVG – not active
RIPE RRC03 – AMS-IX, Amsterdam – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC04 – CIXP, Geneva – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC05 – VIX, Vienna – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC06 – Otemachi, Japan – PNG SVG – not active
RIPE RRC07 – Stockholm, Sweden – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC08 – San Jose (CA), USA – PNG SVG – not active
RIPE RRC09 – Zurich, Switzerland – PNG SVG – not active
RIPE RRC10 – Milan, Italy – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC11 – New York (NY), USA – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC12 – Frankfurt, Germany – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC13 – Moscow, Russia – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC14 – Palo Alto, USA – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC15 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC16 – Miami, USA – PNG SVG – not active

IPv6 network
GIX (summary) – PNG SVG

EPIX Internet Exchange and Transit Point – AS50607 – PNG SVG
ART-COM – AS33923 – PNG SVG
TVK – AS29512 – PNG SVG
EXA-NETWORKS – AS30740 – PNG SVG

RouteViews – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC00 – RIPE NCC, Amsterdam – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC01 – LINX, London – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC02 – SFINX, Paris – PNG SVG – not active
RIPE RRC03 – AMS-IX, Amsterdam – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC04 – CIXP, Geneva – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC05 – VIX, Vienna – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC06 – Otemachi, Japan – PNG SVG – not active
RIPE RRC07 – Stockholm, Sweden – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC08 – San Jose (CA), USA – PNG SVG – not active
RIPE RRC09 – Zurich, Switzerland – PNG SVG – not active
RIPE RRC10 – Milan, Italy – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC11 – New York (NY), USA – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC12 – Frankfurt, Germany – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC13 – Moscow, Russia – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC14 – Palo Alto, USA – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC15 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – PNG SVG
RIPE RRC16 – Miami, USA – PNG SVG – not active

Jan 14th 2012 – Plugin to ExaBGP to inject prefixes directly to a MySQL database is almost ready (during testing process). I am going to prepare a replacement for KLG/MRLG looking glasses which will use directly MySQL database instead of Quagga cli and provide more or less the same functionality.

Jan 28th 2012 – ExaBGP works well, so all sessions were switched from Quagga to ExaBGP. New GIX looking glass is also ready. I’m working on processing Quagga dump files with updates (not only full dumps) from RIPE NCC and Route Views projects. When this task will be completed on maps input direction will be more accurate (about 10 minutes delay on data from RIPE NCC and 20-30 minutes on data from Route Views).

Feb 28th 2012 – Netflow packets decoder written in Python using less than 200 lines looks like working fine. It can be used combined with the route collector code in order to assess amount of traffic passing through particular AS path.


More information about the project soon. I am actively looking for new members who want to setup BGP session to GIX route collector. If you want to ask some questions or participate in the project do not hesitate to write.