bgp export filters?

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:55:01PM +0100, Harald Michl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've two questions regarding filtering of bgp announcements. One simple 
> and one more complicated :-)
>
> The simple one:
>
> I do not want to announce prefixes that have the community 0:64003  
> attached, but all other prefixes. What I did is:
>
> export filter {
> 	if (0,64003) ~ bgp_community then {
> 		reject;
> 	}
> 	accept;
> };
>
> The peer receives no prefixes at all. Any hints?

This seems to be correct, so perhaps there is a bug in Bird.
You can add some print statements and examine log wheter
bgp_community contains what you expect it should contain.

> The other question is more interesting/complicated. Is it possible to  
> include some kind of macros in outbound filters? What I would like would 
> be:
...
> Does that feature exist? If not, would somebody else need something?

You can have named filters (but without parameters) 
See test_filter in doc/bird.conf.example .
You can also define functions and use them in filters.
See also http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&f=bird-5.html .

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