BGP Path Filtering

Mark Radabaugh mark at amplex.net
Fri May 16 02:29:18 UTC 2003


I'm having a hard time finding best practices for filtering outbound bgp
announcements when providing transit to bgp-speaking customers.  While we
currently multi-home to several providers it appears we will soon need to
provide transit for customers with their own AS's.

I find lots of references (and understand) the basic

ip as-path access-list 3 permit ^$

and it would seem that should we wish to provide transit for a bgp customer
AS12345 we would use:

ip as-path access-list 3 permit ^12345$

but I think this breaks if AS12345 prepends their advertisement.

Next up is:

ip as-path access-list 3 permit ^12345_[0-9]$*

Which seems correct to me.   Is this still best practice (or even correct)?

Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
(419) 720-3635





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