[Xorp-hackers] BGP route table

Li Zhao lizhaous2000 at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 27 19:29:03 PST 2010


I think I misunderstood your question. Sorry about that.

--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Aleksandar Cvjetic <aleksandar.cvjetic at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Aleksandar Cvjetic <aleksandar.cvjetic at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xorp-hackers] BGP route table
> To: "Li Zhao" <lizhaous2000 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: xorp-hackers at icir.org
> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 9:00 AM
> Actually not. Existing command "show
> bgp routes" display content of xorp BGP route table,
> right? This table should contains BGP routes from all BGP
> peers, not particular one. Looking into code, I cannot see a
> single BGP route table containing BGP routes from all peers
> (not only the best but all BGP routes). So I suppose when
> one invoke "show bgp routes" on xorp there must be
> some method fetching BGP routes from RibIn tables for each
> branch (peer) because RibIn table is the only BGP table in
> plumbing containing all (unmodified) BGP routes from the
> peer. At least, this is my understanding after spending some
> time looking into code. I'm not sure how does commercial
> routers implements BGP route table, but similar command will
> always display content of BGP route table containing all BGP
> routes from all peers. 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:34 PM,
> Li Zhao <lizhaous2000 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> If understand your question correctly, you want some cli
> command to show
> 
> the routing tables from all peers on one router cli. That
> is not the
> 
> common practice on any commercial routers, like CISCO,
> juniper or Ericsson.
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Aleksandar Cvjetic <aleksandar.cvjetic at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > From: Aleksandar Cvjetic <aleksandar.cvjetic at gmail.com>
> 
> > Subject: [Xorp-hackers] BGP route table
> 
> > To: xorp-hackers at icir.org
> 
> > Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 7:46 AM
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> >
> 
> > I' m wondering where BGP route table is
> implemented in
> 
> > xorp? Searching into docum. and code I found each
> branch
> 
> > (i.e. peer) has its own RIbIn table where all routes
> from
> 
> > that peer are stored and the best one for each
> destination
> 
> > is flagged.  Typing "show bgp routes" all
> BGP
> 
> > routes are displayed, from each branch (peer). Is
> there a
> 
> > single BGP route table containing all BGP routes from
> all
> 
> > peers (and "show bgp routes" display its
> content,
> 
> > which I believe is not case in xorp, but I'm not
> sure)
> 
> > or a method fetch all routes from each RibIn table
> when
> 
> > "show bgp routes" is invoked?
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > Any help appreciated!
> 
> >
> 
> > Thanks,
> 
> > Alex
> 
> >
> 
> >
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