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Version Description
9.8(1.0) Introduced on the Z9100–ON.
9.8(0.0P5) Introduced on the S4048-ON.
9.8(0.0P2) Introduced on the S3048-ON.
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S6000–ON.
9.2(1.0) Introduced on the Z9500.
9.0.2.0 Introduced on the S6000.
8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.
8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000.
8.3.7.0 Introduced on the S4810.
7.8.1.0 Introduced on the S-Series.
7.7.1.0 Introduced on the C-Series.
7.6.1.0 Introduced
Usage
Information
BGP uses regular expressions (regex) to filter route information. In particular, the use of regular
expressions to filter routes based on AS-PATHs and communities is common. In a large-scale
configuration, filtering millions of routes based on regular expressions can be quite CPU intensive, as
a regular expression evaluation involves generation and evaluation of complex finite state machines.
BGP policies, containing regular expressions to match as-path and communities, tend to use much
CPU processing time, which in turn affects the BGP routing convergence. Additionally, the show bgp
commands, which are filtered through regular expressions, use up CPU cycles particularly with large
databases. The Regex Engine Performance Enhancement feature optimizes the CPU usage by caching
and reusing regular expression evaluation results. This caching and reuse may be at the expensive of RP1
processor memory.
Examples
DellEMC(conf-router_bgp)# no bgp regex-eval-optz-disable
DellEMC(conf-router_bgp)# do show ip protocols
Routing Protocol is "ospf 22222"
Router ID is 2.2.2.2
Area Routing for Networks
51 10.10.10.0/00
Routing Protocol is "bgp 1"
Cluster Id is set to 10.10.10.0
Router Id is set to 10.10.10.0
Fast-external-fallover enabled
Regular expression evaluation optimization enabled
Capable of ROUTE_REFRESH
For Address Family IPv4 Unicast
BGP table version is 0, main routing table version 0
Distance: external 20 internal 200 local 200
DellEMC(conf-router_bgp)#
Related
Commands
● show ip protocols — view information on all routing protocols enabled and active on the E-Series.
bgp router-id
Assign a user-given ID to a BGP router.
Syntax
bgp router-id ip-address
To delete a user-assigned IP address, use the no bgp router-id command.
322 Border Gateway Protocol