Route Server?

HI all,

I have just been to this site

traceroute.org

and I have been introduced to a "route server". I logged on to one via SSH and the interface seemed like that of a router, it has lots of BGP routes. But when I issued the command, show IP interface brief, all it had was on fast Ethernet port. Was it a router? Or a server? Im confused....

Cheers

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ColbyG

Those are "looking glasses". They're public on the internet so people can look at the BGP table. A lot of them are Cisco 7200s, some are Quagga servers, some are other stuff.

ColbyG

More info:

Looking Glass servers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

mikem2te

ColbyG wrote: »

Those are "looking glasses". They're public on the internet so people can look at the BGP table. A lot of them are Cisco 7200s, some are Quagga servers, some are other stuff.

That is awesome. I allready clocked the looking glass sites out there for reviewing BGP paths and info. I didn't relealise you could connect to some of the routers and issues "show" commands.

The tiscali router seems to offer a good range of commands, ie not locked down to much.