RE: [nsp] [nsp] BGP - set origin

From: Martin, Christian (cmartin@gnilink.net)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 16:22:28 EDT


> > George,
> >
> > In my experience in testing, set origin egp <asn> does nothing to =
> > change the
> > AS-PATH. Perhaps a bug? Either way, I believe the egp
> construct is =
> > there
> > for legacy purposes and will likely be deprecated in a
> future release.
> >
> > ./chris
>
> It really *does* work, what you have to realize is that like prepend,
> the origin is tacked onto the as-path as part of the output editing
> process and doesn't show up if you just do a "show ip bgp n.n.n.n".

I tried it in the lab using two private asn's. The receiving neighbor shows
origin as egp, but the path is the original path...

TEST-GSR2-------TEST-GSR1

TEST-GSR1#sh run | beg router b
router bgp 64512
 network 192.168.32.0 mask 255.255.224.0
 neighbor 172.26.2.2 remote-as 64513
 neighbor 172.26.2.2 route-map SET-ORIGIN out
!
!
route-map SET-ORIGIN permit 10
 set origin egp 65000
!
ip route 192.168.32.0 255.255.224.0 Null0
!

Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down
State/PfxRcd
172.26.2.1 4 64512 10028 10022 14 0 0 02:40:14 1
TEST-GSR2#sh run | beg router bgp
router bgp 64513
 no synchronization
 neighbor 172.26.2.1 remote-as 64512
!
TEST-GSR2#sh ip bgp
BGP table version is 14, local router ID is 172.27.1.170
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i -
internal
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete

   Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path
*> 192.168.32.0/19 172.26.2.1 0 0 64512 e
TEST-GSR2#
TEST-GSR2#sh ip bgp 192.168.32.0
BGP routing table entry for 192.168.32.0/19, version 14
Paths: (1 available, best #1)
  Not advertised to any peer
  64512
    172.26.2.1 from 172.26.2.1 (207.68.6.5)
      Origin EGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, external, best
TEST-GSR2#

As you can see here, the ASN doesn't change...

chris

> It will show up if viewed from the neighbor or if you show routes
> advertised towards a neighbor...
>
> We've used it 11.1CC thru 12.0.12S...hope nobody gets any silly ideas
> about deprecating it...

>
> George
>



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