Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Filtering BGP Updates With Prefix Lists
A major part of your BSCI and CCNP exam success is mastering BGP, and that includes filtering BGP routing updates. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to filter BGP updates with prefix lists.
R4 is advertising three networks via BGP. The downstream router R3 sees these routes and places them into its BGP table as shown below. R3 has two downstream BGP peers, R1 and R2, and is advertising itself as the next-hop IP address for all BGP routes sent to those two routers.
R4(config)#router bgp 4
R4(config-router)#network 21.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0
R4(config-router)#network 22.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0
R4(config-router)#network 23.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0
R3#show ip bgp
BGP table version is 4, local router ID is 3.3.3.3
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
*> 21.0.0.0 10.2.2.4 0 0 4 I
*> 22.0.0.0 ...
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