route-views.oregon-ix.net -- history


Circa 1995 
route-views started life as a purely operational tool
I needed a way to look how providers saw my routes
Looking glasses still in the future
Randy Bush was kind enough to give me a view from MAE-WEST
People started using route-views and contributing views
http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/as_core_network/AS_Network.xml


Currently
Cisco 7200 VXR/NPE-400/512Mb
12.0(19).S
63 peers
O(700K) paths
O(200M) of RIB
O(4K) connections/day, 30-50 downloads 
archive.routeviews.org