[47988] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: route statistics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Mon May 20 01:07:00 2002
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From: "Bradley Dunn" <bradley@dunn.org>
To: "Ralph Doncaster" <ralph@istop.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 20:25:21 -0400
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> 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
