We have been using bgp and are using only the bgp network feature to advertise class Cs but it seems our router 1.1.1.1 (AS9999) -- name changed is advertising everything to our peers

Our setting routing bgp print

enabled: yes
as: AS9999
router-id: 1.1.1.1
redistribute-static: no
redistribute-connected: no
redistribute-rip: no
redistribute-ospf: no
state: running

XXX@XXX> show route receive-protocol bgp 1.1.1.1 all

inet.0: 162622 destinations, 406356 routes (162575 active, 15 holddown, 103038 hidden)
Prefix Nexthop MED Lclpref AS path
3.0.0.0/8 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 1239 80 I
4.0.0.0/8 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 I
4.17.225.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 11853 6496 6496 6496 6496 I
4.17.226.0/23 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 11853 6496 6496 6496 6496 I
4.17.251.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 11853 6496 6496 6496 6496 I
4.17.252.0/23 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 11853 6496 6496 6496 6496 I
4.19.2.0/23 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 6167 6167 6167 I
4.19.16.0/23 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 6167 6167 6167 I
4.66.68.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 1810 I
6.1.0.0/16 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 668 I
6.2.0.0/22 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 668 I
6.3.0.0/18 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 668 I
6.4.0.0/16 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 668 I
6.5.0.0/19 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 668 I
6.8.0.0/20 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 668 I
6.9.0.0/20 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 668 I
6.10.0.0/15 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 668 I
6.14.0.0/15 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 668 I
8.0.0.0/8 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 I
8.2.64.0/23 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 16803 I
8.3.0.0/23 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 30594 I
8.3.33.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 14757 I
8.6.220.0/22 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 13680 I
8.7.49.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 33472 I
8.7.96.0/22 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 22329 I
8.7.102.0/23 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 22329 I
8.7.216.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 33459 I
8.8.176.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 25920 I
8.10.50.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 32760 I
8.10.119.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 25642 I
8.10.128.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 25642 I
9.4.0.0/16 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 559 I
9.33.123.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 I
12.0.0.0/8 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 I
12.0.17.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 26990 I
12.0.18.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 1239 27585 I
12.0.19.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 3561 27487 I
12.0.20.0/23 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 2386 I
12.0.22.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 2386 I
12.0.28.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 30050 I
12.0.29.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 701 30538 30538 30538 30538 I
12.0.35.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 2386 I
12.0.41.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 2386 I
12.0.43.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 2386 I
12.0.47.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 2386 I
12.0.102.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 2386 I
12.0.170.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 2386 I
12.0.232.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 2386 I
12.1.54.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 23170 I
12.1.56.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 21681 I
12.1.57.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 21681 I
12.1.58.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 21681 I
12.1.59.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 21681 I
12.1.96.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 14359 23306 I
12.1.212.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 2386 I
12.1.216.0/24 1.1.1.1 AS9999 1785 3356 7018 2386 I
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anybody have any idea what to do m y router os is 2.8.24 should i upgrade to 2.8.28 ? Why the hell is it sending everything when I want it only to advertise networks in a list and NOT everything.

Hello nikhil,

This may be a dumb question, but are you using the Prefix Lists/Rules? I believe this is the only method MikroTik offers in order to influence your BGP traffic.

Hello MikroTik,

Have there been any BGP improvements or enhancements? Didn't John Tully mention v2.9 was going to include BGP improvements?

Best,

Brad

I tried prefix lists but no advantage.
IT doesnt work.


I cannot put 2.9 in production (still beta) I am using 2.8.24 and bgp works fine but our upstream tells us we advertise the whole internet to them . They have to inturn use filter list to take only those ip ranges that we are supposed to advertise. Over a 100mbps and GIGE link I know this is not a lot but then I thought it still is work for the router so to take the load off it is important.

I wish somebody can point us in the right direction.

prefix-lists works on v2.8.27 last time i checked. i stayed away from v2.8.24 and i havent tried v2.8.28 yet

prefix-lists works on v2.8.27 last time i checked. i stayed away from v2.8.24 and i havent tried v2.8.28 yet

Agreed, I didn't personally setup the prefix lists in our routers, but I know they do work. Also, any BGP changes in MT require the BGP service to be stopped and restarted. This is a REAL pain and I hope MT fixes this in v2.9.

Best,

Brad

So Prefix List changes also require MT to be restarted ?

Not that i am aware of. You might want to configure hold-time and keepalive time. I had to go in the other way to setup advertisement-interval to make sure changes in network list got propogated.

Not that i am aware of. You might want to configure hold-time and keepalive time. I had to go in the other way to setup advertisement-interval to make sure changes in network list got propogated.

How did you go the other way ???
Where are these settings i dont see them !

Not that i am aware of. You might want to configure hold-time and keepalive time. I had to go in the other way to setup advertisement-interval to make sure changes in network list got propogated.

How did you go the other way ???
Where are these settings i dont see them !

First off, you get more settings if you access it from terminal/telnet/ssh. command line seems to give you access to a few extra minor settings.
Atleast you'll get keepalive and holdtime configured which are very necessary. But how to access it "the other way" is the same as you would access quagga/zebra (remember that your firewall rules might block you). This is almost certainly an unsupported feature. Some settings can make your bgpd die and never resurface!! (Reinstalling routing package has sometimes helped).