Using bird to pull global BGP route counts
For an electronics project I’m working on I wanted a way to check the current global routing table every five minutes for both IPv4 and IPv6. I did not want to log into anyone else’s router or looking glass as checking every 5 minutes may be considered abuse. So I thought to spin up a bird routing instance. I just wanted to receive the routes, not actually install them into the kernel on my linux box. From there I’d be able to check the table size sent over. ...