It looks like a pig! Totally unintended I swear.

The red dot represents my AS on DN42, AS4242421926. Peer with me here!

• I'm bored.
• I need a new wallpaper.
• I want to make my desktop geekier with some Data Visualization (tm).
• I have a full BGP feed of DN42.

And then, I discovered the amazing BGP tool known as ExaBGP, and everything came together.

Assuming you have a machine running ExaBGP and Redis, use the following configuration to fill the Redis database with all routes coming from neighbors:

process dn42wp {
        run /where/is/exabgp-process.py;
        encoder json;
}

neighbor x.x.x.x {
        # Your peer configuration here

        api {
                processes [ dn42wp ];
                receive {
                        parsed;
                        update;
                }
        }
}

Then, run generate-json.py to generate a JSON containing all peerings. Save it as data.json and serve it in the same directory of the page.

It's not particularly suitable as a wallpaper, and I don't get to play with the cool toys myself.

By the way, have you heard of the IKEA effect?

Hacked together in a couple of hours, with all sorts of terrible code and quirks. My scripts do not inject any route, but if you believe in Illuminati, filter all routes on your router.

• ExaBGP, for hours of fun playing with routing information programmatically.
• Edmundo Santos, for his awesome CSS background that I kanged here shamelessly.