route statistics

Sun May 19 00:25:21 UTC 2002

> I'm trying to collect statistics on how many routes match certain
> patterns.  So far I've been using zebra, set term len 0, and then sh ip
> bgp regexp, and wait for the total prefixes count at the end of the list.
> I figure there must be a better way than this, but so far haven't found
> one.  Any ideas?

Zebra supports dumping the RIB to MRT binary format. See the 'dump bgp'
family of commands. I find this format much easier to deal with than CLI
output.

Bradley