mrt : Tools to Retrieve and Process 'BGP' Files

Requirements

This package links to libBGPdump.

On macOS, you can do the following to install the libary:

brew install bgpdump

On Ubuntu/Debian (or prbly any other one) you can do the following to install the library:

sudo apt-get install -y mercurial libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/ripencc/bgpdump
cd bgpdump
./bootstrap.sh
make
sudo make install

(you may need to use ldconfig after that depending on your system)

The following functions are implemented:

• get_latest_rib: Retrieve the latest RouteViews RIB file
• get_rib: Retrieve a specific, historical RouteViews RIB file
• rib_to_asn_table: Convert RouteViews RIB (bgpdump table dump v2) to subnet/asn map

Installation

devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/mrt")

Usage

library(mrt)

# current verison
packageVersion("mrt")

## [1] '0.1.0'

Test Results

library(mrt)
library(testthat)

date()

## [1] "Mon Jul 18 17:47:04 2016"

test_dir("tests/")

## Loading required package: bgpdump

## 
## Attaching package: 'bgpdump'

## The following objects are masked from 'package:mrt':
## 
##     get_latest_rib, rib_to_asn_table

## testthat results ========================================================================================================
## OK: 0 SKIPPED: 0 FAILED: 0
## 
## DONE ===================================================================================================================