Looking Glass Graph Demo

A realistic UK topology with real external ASNs, populating the Looking Glass topology graph -- the one lab that's actually browsable today.

Daemon

Injects 36 routes into a running Ze instance describing a small but realistic network: a core ring (Telehouse, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham) with edge sites (Slough, Bradford), peered with real external ASNs -- NTT (transit), Cogent (transit), Cloudflare (peering), and Akamai (peering), all under AS65000.

Unlike the interop labs, this one starts a real Looking Glass on localhost and prints a URL -- open it in a browser and the topology graph and route views are populated with this data.

Proves The Looking Glass topology graph and route views render correctly against a realistic multi-site, multi-peer network

Topology AS65000 core ring + edge sites, external peers NTT/Cogent/Cloudflare/Akamai

Requires Go toolchain to build ze if not already built -- nothing else

Source test/plugin/lg-graph-lab/

looking-glass-graph

# builds ze if needed, injects routes, starts the looking glass
$ ./test/plugin/lg-graph-lab/run.sh [lg-port]

# then browse to the printed URL (default port 8443)
# Ctrl+C to stop

Good first lab

No Docker, no QEMU, no root. If you want to see what Ze's operator surfaces actually look like before running anything else, start here.

Looking Glass docs peer and route viewer