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Hurricane Electric?s New Looking Glass Technology Allows Users to View Network Paths

📅 March 1, 2002 - Hurricane Electric, a technical service provider, has created a network engineer's Wonderland through their Looking Glass program, designed to allow users to view routing paths from inside Hurricane Electric's network via a web interface.

Aimed at the technically savvy, the Looking Glass, lg.he.net, enables users to ping or trace, tools to test network connectivity, from any or all core routers in Hurricane Electric's (he.net ) network.
Looking at Hurricane Electric's entire BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) tables, users can see other company's network or Autonomous Systems. Users can also run a BGP summary, which reveals statistics on all neighboring routers and peering sessions. Network Operators and downstream customers can check on the status and speed of the network or routes, paths taken from a source to a destination, at any given time through an IP address query.
Looking Glass is one of the only such technologies to support both IPv4 and IPv6 unicast and mulitcast query (ping or trace) types. Hurricane Electric offers a free tunnel broker, tunnelbroker.net, to the public to increase the use and progression of IPv6, a 128-bit addressing system which, experts say, will eventually replace the current 32-bit addressing system, IPv4.

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