bgpipe is a BGP reverse proxy and firewall.
The vision for bgpipe is to be a powerful BGP firewall that transparently secures, enhances, and audits existing BGP speakers. The hope is to bolster open source innovation in the closed world of big BGP router vendors.
Under the hood, it works as a pipeline of data processing stages that slice and dice streams of BGP messages.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- BGP man-in-the-middle proxy that dumps all conversation.
- Bidirectional BGP to JSON bridge to a background process (filter or mirror mode).
- websocket + TLS transport of BGP sessions over the public Internet.
- BGP listener on one side, connecting with a TCP-MD5 password on the other side.
- BGP speaker that streams an MRT file after the session is established.
- Fast MRT to JSON converter (and back).
- IP prefix limits enforcer.
- Router control plane firewall (drop, modify, and synthesize BGP messages).
Website: github.com/bgpfix/bgpipe
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Developer: PF Labs Pawel Foremski
License: MIT License
bgpipe is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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