The goal of this tool is to help query the Bird routing daemon with a high volume of queries.
The library is written in Python 3 and uses a persistent connection to the local Unix socket to be efficient.
A simple benchmark that calls show route for 8.8.8.8 all many times
and discards the replies received from Bird. The number of iterations is passed as argument:
python3 benchmark.py 100000
On a machine with a full BGP view (782642 routes), it takes around 6 seconds, which means a query rate of around 17k queries per second.
Read IP addresses from stdin and print the IP itself plus route paths or list of errors. Pass the needed IP version as argument to select the right socket. Example usage:
echo 8.8.8.8 | python3 query.py v4
echo 2001:4860:4860::8888 | python3 query.py v6