Traffic meter per ASN without logs
The article discusses a new tool called asncounter designed to analyze traffic per Autonomous System Number (ASN) without relying on logs. It highlights the challenges faced by network administrators in identifying traffic sources, especially when dealing with bots and high loads. The author shares their experiences and the development process of asncounter, which aims to simplify traffic analysis.
- ▪Asncounter is a tool created to analyze traffic per ASN without the need for logs.
- ▪The author faced challenges with bot traffic affecting their network performance.
- ▪The tool can be installed via pip or apt and is designed to help identify traffic sources effectively.
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Traffic meter per ASN without logs blog Have you ever found yourself in the situation where you had no or anonymized logs and still wanted to figure out where your traffic was coming from? Or you have multiple upstreams and are looking to see if you can save fees by getting into peering agreements with some other party? Or your site is getting heavy load but you can't pinpoint it on a single IP and you suspect some amoral corporation is training their degenerate AI on your content with a bot army? (You might be getting onto something there.) If that rings a bell, read on. Traffic meter per ASN without logs TL;DR: Background and manual work ASNs and networks Introducing asncounter The Huawei and Facebook blocks A full asncounter run TL;DR: ...
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