Le 21 nov. 2012 à 18:54, Paolo Lucente <[email protected]>
 a écrit :
> Hi Frederic, Jerome,

Hi Paolo,

> I see two cases essentially: 1) Router to location and BGP community to
> location is easy to solve as the source for that will always be internal
> data/docs: a map, with syntax similar to pre_tag_map would do the job,
> ie. "id=<location ID> [ip|bgp_nexthop|src_comms|comms]=<data>"; agree or
> would anybody propose a different approach?

I agree, our communities defines a lot of geographical information from where 
the route was learned, however the aggregation through interfaces id and router 
is enough for us. The mapping "country" -> community through an external API to 
BGP suggested by Jerome is kind of a hack of a BGP daemon instead of hacking 
directly pmacct :-)

> 2) route to location: this
> is interesting since data for routes out of the own network is to be
> taken from somewhere - API, DB, etc.: is anybody aware of any public/
> freely accessible data in this sense and/or has a recommendation which
> data set to use? 

We use maxmind API : http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/

Our idea is to load this in a plugin and then do exactly the same as the BGP 
plugin : for each IP, we do an internal lookup in the maxmind database loaded 
in ram.

> Frederic: would your interest lie more on the first or the second case?

Definitely the second case which seems to me the proper way to do this :-)

Best regards,

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