07-02-2007 07:06 AM - edited 03-05-2019 05:04 PM
Hi All,
Looking for some decode assist on some output from a show bgp command... we are setting communities on this route, which you see in the bgp topology table. My question is... on the routes that show received-only, the community isn't being set. Does anyone know the reason why it shows up like this? Are the top 2 entries for the same route, one before filtering and one after?
Thanks, Lisa.... output below.
bermudadigital1-devonshire-bmu#show ip bgp 208.75.200.28
BGP routing table entry for 208.75.200.28/32, version 28567
Paths: (4 available, best #1, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
Advertised to update-groups:
26559
208.75.200.11 from 208.75.200.11 (208.75.200.11)
Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, external, best
Community: 26559:110
26559, (received-only)
208.75.200.11 from 208.75.200.11 (208.75.200.11)
Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, external
26559
208.75.200.12 from 208.75.200.12 (208.75.200.12)
Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, external
Community: 26559:110
26559, (received-only)
208.75.200.12 from 208.75.200.12 (208.75.200.12)
Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, external
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07-02-2007 08:27 AM
Lisa,
It is normal behavior that the received-only routes do not carry the community that you set locally.
As Edison mentioned, the received-only routes are a direct effect of the "soft-reconfiguration inbound". These routes are kept intact as they are received from the neighbor hence why you do not see the community being set on them. Clearing the BGP neighbor will not change anything.
Hope this helps,
07-02-2007 09:47 AM
Lisa,
This is precisely it.
Regards,
07-02-2007 07:29 AM
Lisa,
If you are setting the communities on this router, you will be able to see the community only on the router to which it is being advertised and not on the router setting it
Narayan
07-02-2007 07:35 AM
In this case the output showing the communities being set is the router that is setting it.... and the communities show up in half of the topology listings.
The thing I'm curious about is why they show up in 1/2 of the listings, and why the received-only is showing up.
Thanks!!
Lisa G
07-02-2007 07:43 AM
Can you share your topology?
Narayan
07-02-2007 07:58 AM
We're receiving the bgp topology entries from 2 ebgp neighbors:
IBGP: 172.31.194.49 4 14323 25714 15937 28611 0 0 2d21h 1095
IBGP: 172.31.194.57 4 14323 26434 15840 28611 0 0 2d08h 1095
EBGP: 208.75.200.11 4 26559 15915 15968 28611 0 0 1w4d 4
EBGP: 208.75.200.12 4 26559 15907 15968 28611 0 0 1w4d 4
we are receiving 4 routes from each neighbor, and the prior output was from one of the received routes. So it looks to me like we should have one advertisement recieved from each ebgp peer, totaling 2 ... yet in the topolgoy for BGP we see 4 possibles. That's why we speculated that we see each 2x.
What other ouptut would you like?
Thanks!!
07-02-2007 08:02 AM
Do you have "soft-reconfiguration inbound" for the neighbor sending that information ? If so, that's the reason the routes are still stored in your BGP table.
Do a 'clear ip bgp * in' during off-hours in order to remove these routes.
07-02-2007 08:09 AM
Hi Edison, Yes, you are right... there's soft reconfiguration inbound.
I had just cleared all bgp neighbors soft in & out before taking this snapshot. I'll do it tonight though and will see if it alters anything.
Thanks!
07-02-2007 08:27 AM
Lisa,
It is normal behavior that the received-only routes do not carry the community that you set locally.
As Edison mentioned, the received-only routes are a direct effect of the "soft-reconfiguration inbound". These routes are kept intact as they are received from the neighbor hence why you do not see the community being set on them. Clearing the BGP neighbor will not change anything.
Hope this helps,
07-02-2007 09:44 AM
Thanks!
So basically in this output, each advertisement is seen once pre- filtering & policy-making alterations, and once after making policy-altering changes to the routes?
Thanks... Lisa
Advertised to update-groups:
2
26559
208.75.200.11 from 208.75.200.11 (208.75.200.11)
Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, external, best
Community: 26559:60
26559, (received-only)
208.75.200.11 from 208.75.200.11 (208.75.200.11)
Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, external
26559
208.75.200.12 from 208.75.200.12 (208.75.200.12)
Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, external
Community: 26559:60
26559, (received-only)
208.75.200.12 from 208.75.200.12 (208.75.200.12)
Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, external
07-02-2007 09:47 AM
Lisa,
This is precisely it.
Regards,
07-02-2007 09:50 AM
Basically, I want to clone you.
:-)
Thanks,
LisaG
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