BGP Filtering

Sat Jan 13 11:15:25 UTC 2001

Jon,

What's wrong with the following?

(Customers peering session config for you)

neighnor x.x.x.x remote-as 6347
neighbor x.x.x.x route-map CUSTOMER:ROUTES out
!
ip as-path access-list CUSTOMER:ROUTES permit ^$
ip as-path access-list CUSTOMER:ROUTES permit ^65501$
ip as-path access-list CUSTOMER:ROUTES permit ^65502$
ip as-path access-list CUSTOMER:ROUTES permit ^65503$
!
route-map CUSTOMER:ROUTES permit 10
 match as-path CUSTOMER:ROUTES
!

It's easy, it's simple, it's concise.  When you add a customer, you add a
line to as-path access-list CUSTOMER:ROUTES and you're set.

You can (and we do) of course prefix-list filter the customer on their
announcements to you, etc but, the as-path access-list filter is very
simple.  (Announce US and our customers.)

---
John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc

On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Jon Stanley wrote:

> 
> I was assiting a customer the other day who was attempting to act as
> transit to us (we were filtering it thank goodness).  Now my question is
> why the AS_PATH list that I gave him did not work.  His AS is (let's
> say) 65000, and he has a transit AS 65001.  He is multi-homed with AS1 and
> AS6347.  Here is what I gave him:
> 
> ip as-path access-list 20 deny ^.*(_6347).*$
> ip as-path access-list 20 deny ^.*(_1).*$
> ip as-path access-list 20 permit .*
> 
> and I then applied it as a filter-list outbound on the neighbor.  This
> worked great at filtering out the routes that he was originating.  As for
> the routes that HIS transit customer was advertising, it didn't work at
> all - they weren't getting advertised.  I thought that the access-list may
> have been defective, so i changed the second line to ^.*(_1_).*$ but that
> didn't help either.  What I wound up doing as a bandaid was putting in
> 
> ip as-path access-list 20 permit ^65001$
> 
> between the second deny and the permit .*.  Now I may not understand Cisco
> regular expressions, but the first access-list the desired effect was to
> deny everything with AS1 or AS6347 in the as-path and permit everything
> else.  Why didn't this work as intended?
> 
> AS numbers changed to protect the innocent :).
> 
> 
> 