MRT

Latest revision as of 10:28, 20 July 2020

MRT is a format for storing information related to the state of Internet routers, especially BGP-related information. It originated in 1999^[1] as part of the development of the Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit, from which it takes its name, but the format has outlived the original program, which ceased development in 2005^[2]. It was standardized in RFC 6396 in 2011.

[edit] Specifications

• RFC 6396

[edit] Software

Read:

• mrtparse
• pybgpdump
• BGPDump
• Net::MRT

Write:

• Quagga
• BIRD
• OpenBGPD
• PyRT

[edit] Links

• Archives of the University of Oregon Route Views Project, uses MRT
  • E.g. rib.20130304.1800.bz2 (Inside Bzip2)
• Similar archives from RIPE
  • E.g. updates.20061130.2245.gz (Inside Gzip)

[edit] References

1. ↑ RFC 6396, "The MRT format was initially defined in the MRT Programmer's Guide"
2. ↑ The ".orig" file in the Debian archives, containing the upstream (from the Debian perspective) sources, is dated to April 2005; the website had also gone down by 2006