asncounter 0.4.0

Count the number of hits (HTTP, packets, etc) per autonomous system number (ASN) and related network blocks

ASN counter

Count the number of hits (HTTP, packets, etc) per autonomous system number (ASN) and related network blocks.

This is useful when you get a lot of traffic on a server to figure out which network is responsible for the traffic, to direct abuse complaints or block whole networks, or on core routers to figure out who your peers are and who you might want to seek particular peering agreements with.

Features

• reads packets from a text file (or stdin) one per line
• counts number of hits, packets, sizes, latency, etc per ASN and netblock
• can parse some tcpdump output or read packets directly from interfaces with scapy
• fast ASN lookups pyasn
• automatic download of relevant databases from routeviews.org
• Prometheus exporter
• written in Python
• optional Python REPL interpreter shell to drill into reports

See the manual page for full documentation and examples.

Installation

Simply:

pip install asncounter

Can also run from the source directory directly.

Note that the pip install does not build or deploy the manual page, as that depends on pandoc or some markdown-to-man converter, which feels too complicated to setup in the Python tool chain.

The Debian package properly builds and ships the manual page, however, see debian/rules for an example of how to package this on your own distribution.

Dependencies

• pyasn

Optional dependencies

• manhole: to get a debugging socket
• scapy: to scrape packets directly without tcpdump (slower)
• prometheus_client: to export Prometheus metrics
• [netaddr][]: to aggregate network blocks in the REPL or manhole