https://mellowd.co.uk/tags/script/ Recent content in Script on mellowd.co.uk Hugo en-gb Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:33:54 +0000 https://mellowd.co.uk/post/using-bird-to-pull-global-bgp-route-counts/ Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:33:54 +0000 https://mellowd.co.uk/post/using-bird-to-pull-global-bgp-route-counts/ <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>