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+Network administrators need to be aware of the state of their network. While
+link-state routing protocols like OSPF have the required information, there was
+no easy way to present it to the administrator. To solve this problem, we
+developed Birdvisu, a program to visualise the topology as seen by the BIRD
+Internet Routing Daemon. Our approach allows the topology to be easily
+annotated with other data, providing an extensible way of analysing the
+topology. While not fully featured yet, Birdvisu helped discover several
+misconfigurations in a community-run network connecting about 1600 people.
 
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