[c-nsp] Determining number of BGP advertised routes in IOS XR

[John Neiberger]

That's essentially what I was trying. If you only have a few thousand
prefixes, it works great. If you're sending a few hundred thousand, it
takes a few minutes to complete, which is really annoying.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Ahmad Fadli Robbi <
ahmad.fadli.robbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> You could try this to show advertise routes in IOS XR
>
>
> sh bgp neighbor (neighbor peer) advertised-routes
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> Regards
>
>
> Fadel
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:00 AM, John Neiberger <jneiberger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Other vendors make this very easy, so I feel like I must be missing
>> something. Is there a fast way to determine the number of prefixes being
>> advertised to a neighbor? For anything approaching a full table, "show bgp
>> ipv4 uni nei <ip> advertised-routes | i prefix" can take a couple of
>> minutes to complete. Juniper and others seem to just put this info into
>> the
>> output of "show bgp neighbor", which makes it super easy.
>>
>> I see that IOS XR has a field that is tantalizingly close called "prefix
>> advertised" but that seems to be the total of all advertisements since the
>> peer came up. For example, the peer I'm looking at right now shows 4.7
>> million prefixes advertised, which I think might be a bit overestimating
>> things.  :)
>>
>> So, what am I missing? Is there really not an easier way in XR to get this
>> simple piece of information?
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