[irrtoolset]Error: badly formed AS_path filter

I'm using the 4.8.2-FreeBSD 5 Precompiled binary.

On 9-Aug-04, at 10:14 AM, Katie Petrusha wrote:

> 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?
>
> -- 
> Kind regards,
> Katje