Re: [irrtoolset]Error: badly formed AS_path filter

[Katie Petrusha <]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:07:10AM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:

Dear Jason,

Which version are you using?
Latest 4.8.2 had a tiny bug in it, the patch and source are available at:

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/tools/IRRToolSet/IRRToolSet-4.8.2/

If you take the latest version and apply the patch, as-path filters work fine.

> I'm not sure what I'm missing here.  When I pass the following through 
> RtConfig, I get the above error.  As per the man pages, RFC2622 states: 
>  "An AS-path regular expression can be used as a policy filter by 
> enclosing the expression in ?<? and ?>?.  An AS-path policy filter 
> matches the set of routes which traverses a sequence of ASes matched by 
> the AS-path regular expression."  I read that as meaning that my 
> RtConfig line which reads @RtConfig aspath_access_list filter <AS577> 
> should work fine.  I'm using 577 as an example just to test things out. 
>  I'm not peering with 577 and have no relationship with them, however 
> that shouldn't prevent me from being able to generate an as-path 
> access-list using their information, should it?

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Kind regards,
Katje