Matthew Williams <matthew@ripe.net>               .               Techy Talk, December 20, 2001               .               http://www.ripe.net/ris/
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What is a RRC box?
•Software router using Zebra’s BGP daemon
•No BGP announcements from RRC (‘quiet’)
•Peering configured on between RRC and peers at IXP
•BGP update dumps every 15 min
•RIB snapshots, i.e. BGP table, every 8 hours
•Dumps in MRT binary format stored locally on RRC’s HDD
•NTP synchronization & UTC Time-stamps
•Collect script on Abcoude pulls binary files, the ‘Raw Data’, to central storage at RIPE NCC using RSYNC via SSH tunnel
BGP listener
(Zebra’s BGPd)
BGP Peer
BGP
Updates
RIB
Snapshots
RIS server at
Ripe NCC
(Abcoude)