Brocade Multi-Service IronWare Routing Configuration Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) - Manual (Page 106)

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Filtering
To filter for a special character instead of using the special character as described in Table 4 , enter
“\” (backslash) in front of the character. For example, to filter on AS-path strings containing an
asterisk, enter the asterisk portion of the regular expression as “\*”.
Brocade(config-bgp)# ip as-path access-list acl2 deny \*
To use the backslash as a string character, enter two slashes. For example, to filter on AS-path
strings containing a backslash, enter the backslash portion of the regular expression as “\\”.
Brocade(config-bgp)# ip as-path access-list acl2 deny \\
Filtering communities
You can filter routes received from BGP4 neighbors based on community names.
$ A dollar sign matches on the end of an input string. For example, the following regular expression
matches on an AS-path that ends with “deg”:
deg$
_ An underscore matches on one or more of the following:
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, (comma)
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{ (left curly brace)
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} (right curly brace)
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( (left parenthesis)
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) (right parenthesis)
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The beginning of the input string
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The end of the input string
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A blank space
For example, the following regular expression matches on “100” but not on “1002”, “2100”, and
so on.
_100_
[ ] Square brackets enclose a range of single-character patterns. For example, the following regular
expression matches on an AS-path that contains “1”, “2”, “3”, “4”, or “5”:
[1-5]
You can use the following expression symbols within the brackets. These symbols are allowed
only inside the brackets:
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^ – The caret matches on any characters except the ones in the brackets. For example, the
following regular expression matches on an AS-path that does not contain “1”, “2”, “3”, “4”,
or “5”:
[^1-5]
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- The hyphen separates the beginning and ending of a range of characters. A match occurs
if any of the characters within the range is present. Refer to the example above.
| A vertical bar (sometimes called a pipe or a “logical or”) separates two alternative values or sets
of values. The AS-path can match one or the other value. For example, the following regular
expression matches on an AS-path that contains either “abc” or “defg”:
(abc)|(defg)
NOTE: The parentheses group multiple characters to be treated as one value. Refer to the
following row for more information about parentheses.
( ) Parentheses allow you to create complex expressions. For example, the following complex
expression matches on “abc”, “abcabc”, or “abcabcabcdefg”, but not on “abcdefgdefg”:
((abc)+)|((defg)?)
TABLE 4 BGP4 special characters for regular expressions (Continued)
Character Operation