RE: anyone use fbtracert successfully?

2021-11-25 Thread Jean St-Laurent via NANOG
: anyone use fbtracert successfully? Thank you!! Some of those tools are proving much more useful for me than fbtracert. (In particular, traceflow has been updated recently enough that it “just works” in common environments that have Python3. And while it may not be perfect, it’s good enough

RE: anyone use fbtracert successfully?

2021-11-25 Thread Adam Thompson
.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/> From: Hugo Slabbert Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2021 10:39 AM To: Thomas Scott Cc: Adam Thompson ; nanog Subject: Re: anyone use fbtracert successfully? What about some other options? https://paris-traceroute.net/ https://dublin-tracerout

Re: anyone use fbtracert successfully?

2021-11-25 Thread Hugo Slabbert
What about some other options? https://paris-traceroute.net/ https://dublin-traceroute.net/ https://github.com/rucarrol/traceflow -- Hugo Slabbert On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 9:54 AM Thomas Scott wrote: > Ha, my apologies, I thought I was writing this for a Linux User Group, not > a NOG. Ignore

Re: anyone use fbtracert successfully?

2021-11-24 Thread Thomas Scott
Ha, my apologies, I thought I was writing this for a Linux User Group, not a NOG. Ignore my simplistic explanations. - Thomas Scott | mr.thomas.sc...@gmail.com On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 12:47 PM Thomas Scott wrote: > I have used it successfully in a test environment that I was using ECMP > in.

Re: anyone use fbtracert successfully?

2021-11-24 Thread Thomas Scott
I have used it successfully in a test environment that I was using ECMP in. Most of the public networks that I've worked with don't use ECMP as often as other methods for steering traffic (LAGs, BGP MEDs, etc). What I have seen it fantastically useful for was troubleshooting a transit provider,

anyone use fbtracert successfully?

2021-11-24 Thread Adam Thompson
The tool fbtracert (http://github.com/facebookarchive/fbtracert) was mentioned here recently as a way to get visibility into multi-pathing. Has anyone here ever used this tool successfully? Supposedly Facebook uses this tool internally, but… that doesn’t help much. I’ve tried it on 4 different