I had to write my own MRT parser library for my PhD. After my defense
next January, I plan to release it. (one step at a time, I'm quite
busy right now preparing the defense ;-) ) It's written in Java. Re:
pybgpdump, I have to agree it's a very nice tool once you patch dpkt
:-) re libbgpdump, it compiles, it helped me kick-start my research,
but that's it.

My .02 cents,

/Pedro A. Aranda

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Pedro Torres <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yes, libbgpdump is a really great tool. We are using it with success.
> The lib is fast and simple.
> Unfortunately the source code still use some defines that not follow
> RFC-6396, example: BGPDUMP_TYPE_ZEBRA_BGP instead BGP4MP.
>
> https://bitbucket.org/ripencc/bgpdump/wiki/Home
> They say: "This format is described in the Internet Draft grow-mrt-13."
>
> According to what they says the lib follow a draft. I don't think it's
> a big problem because no big changes was done since MRT draft 13 until
> RFC-6396 but could be a good idea to update the documentation and
> nomenclatures. The same should be done with Quagga bgpd daemon.
>
> --
> Pedro
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Larry Blunk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>   libbgpdump supports both the BGP4MP_MESSAGE UPDATE message MRT type
>>  and the TABLE_DUMP/TABLE_DUMP_V2 table dump types.
>>
>>  -Larry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/27/2012 11:52 AM, Robert Raszuk wrote:
>>>
>>> Thx again both Larry and Mattia,
>>>
>>> Actually I am more looking for parsing MRT BGP4MP_MESSAGE containing
>>> bunch of raw UPDATE messages from peers rather then table dumps.
>>>
>>> However libbgpdump seems like a good starting point ... if for nothing
>>> else then for parsing common message headers.
>>>
>>> Many thx,
>>> R.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Larry Blunk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    libbgpdump is available at http://www.ris.ripe.net/source/ and
>>>> contains the bgpdump tool which will read and process the table dump
>>>> and update files in the Routeviews and RIPE RIS archives.
>>>>
>>>>   -Larry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/27/2012 11:33 AM, Robert Raszuk wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thx Larry !
>>>>>
>>>>> Any pointer to best MRT opensource tools repository for parsing the
>>>>> messages and maybe even performing some analysis on them (in
>>>>> particular related to BGP) ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Rgs,
>>>>> R.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Larry Blunk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/27/2012 11:17 AM, Robert Raszuk wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone (in particular cc-ed authors) recall what is the status,
>>>>>>> planned update, planned progress to RFC of this document:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-grow-mrt-04.txt
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thx,
>>>>>>> R.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    It's an RFC now --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6396
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Unfortunately, section 4.3.4 does not match the
>>>>>> current Quagga/libbgpdump implementations.  The RFC
>>>>>> says to omit the AFI/SAFI/NLRI fields in the MP_REACH_NLRI
>>>>>> attribute (since that info is already in the MRT
>>>>>> RIB Entry Header), but the current implementations
>>>>>> simply copy the attribute as-is in the RIB Entry
>>>>>> field.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Regards,
>>>>>>     Larry Blunk
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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