[GTER] The Netlantis Project

[Pascal Gloor]

(in advance, sorry for possible duplicates, my first mail sent 2 days ago
did not yet arrive)

Bom dia GTER,

Eu espero também seu apropriado a escrever em inglês nesta lista (pesarosa,
este é uma tradução do babelfish, causa que eu não falo nenhuma palavra de
brasilian, hummm exceto Caipirina) :-)

I hope this is not inappropriate, if so, let me know.
I just want to let you know of the "Netlantis Project".

We could call netlantis an "enhanced route viewer".. ;)

Netlantis collects actually routes from over 70 peers using 5 route
collectors running zebra. Today there are 3 route collectors in europe (one
shared with RIPE NCC RIS Project, see http://ris.ripe.net for more
informations) and two in the USA. There are 3 new up coming route
collectors, in New Zeland, South Africa and USA.

Netlantis is free, run my people willing to share their knowledge and tools,
and is not intended to be commercial at all!

Netlantis offers a whole set of tools, to graph networks, to check the
consistency of your own prefixes, to check the presence of 'bogus' prefixes
in the routing table, to check networks which 'disappear' and 'appear' from
the net, etc..etc..

Netlantis is open, if you have ideas of tools, if you would like to see this
or that, if you've coded a tool but you dont have access to realtime datas
as netlantis has, drop me a mail and we'll find a way to make netlantis do
what you need! ;)

Netlantis had been presented at the RIPE-46 meeting in Amsterdam, NL a few
weeks ago:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/ripe46-routing-netlantis.pdf

The first purpose of this mail is to let you know about netlantis and (I
hope) that the offered tools will help you.

The second purpose of a request for sponsors ;) Netlantis is willing to have
a RouteCollector in the LACNIC region. It would need something like a PIII
800Mhz with at least 512MB of ram and stable connectivity (the stability of
the BGP sessions is a critical point). Located on a peering point is the
best, but not mandatory. The usual traffic generated by a netlantis route
collector is less than 100kbps. If you can and you're interested by
sponsoring netlantis, drop me a mail.

Netlantis is available at http://www.netlantis.org

Regards,
Pascal