Recently two BGP tools have been released to the public, BGP::Inspect and Link-Rank. The common goal is to make the vast quantities of the University of Oregon's Route Views data easily accesible to the network operator and research community.
Link-Rank visualizes BGP routing changes, while BGP::Inspect answers various useful queries, e.g., most active ASes and most active prefixes, as well as prefixes that exhibited the most number of changes in their OriginAS.
Roughly half of this BOF will be a tutorial describing the tools' basic functionality and a number of new usage features. The second half offers an interactive hands-on opportunity for interested users to try them out, as well as to collect feedback from the operator community for future improvement. Attendees are encouraged to suggest analysis problems that may have arisen in their work and test whether the tools would be effective in analyzing these events. BGP::Inspect is available from http://weasel.merit.edu:8080 and Link-Rank is available from http://linkrank.cs.ucla.edu.