- Read Me First
- Cisco BGP Overview
- BGP 4
- Configuring a Basic BGP Network
- BGP 4 Soft Configuration
- BGP Support for 4-byte ASN
- IPv6 Routing: Multiprotocol BGP Extensions for IPv6
- IPv6 Routing: Multiprotocol BGP Link-Local Address Peering
- IPv6 Multicast Address Family Support for Multiprotocol BGP
- Configuring Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP) Support for CLNS
- BGP IPv6 Admin Distance
- Connecting to a Service Provider Using External BGP
- BGP Route-Map Continue
- BGP Route-Map Continue Support for Outbound Policy
- Removing Private AS Numbers from the AS Path in BGP
- Configuring BGP Neighbor Session Options
- BGP Neighbor Policy
- BGP Dynamic Neighbors
- BGP Support for Next-Hop Address Tracking
- BGP Restart Neighbor Session After Max-Prefix Limit Reached
- BGP Support for Dual AS Configuration for Network AS Migrations
- Configuring Internal BGP Features
- BGP VPLS Auto Discovery Support on Route Reflector
- BGP FlowSpec Route-reflector Support
- BGP Flow Specification Client
- BGP NSF Awareness
- BGP Graceful Restart per Neighbor
- BGP Support for BFD
- IPv6 NSF and Graceful Restart for MP-BGP IPv6 Address Family
- BGP Link Bandwidth
- Border Gateway Protocol Link-State
- iBGP Multipath Load Sharing
- BGP Multipath Load Sharing for Both eBGP and iBGP in an MPLS-VPN
- Loadsharing IP Packets over More Than Six Parallel Paths
- BGP Policy Accounting
- BGP Policy Accounting Output Interface Accounting
- BGP Cost Community
- BGP Support for IP Prefix Import from Global Table into a VRF Table
- BGP Support for IP Prefix Export from a VRF Table into the Global Table
- BGP per Neighbor SoO Configuration
- Per-VRF Assignment of BGP Router ID
- BGP Next Hop Unchanged
- BGP Support for the L2VPN Address Family
- BGP Event-Based VPN Import
- BGP Best External
- BGP PIC Edge for IP and MPLS-VPN
- Detecting and Mitigating a BGP Slow Peer
- Configuring BGP: RT Constrained Route Distribution
- Configuring a BGP Route Server
- BGP Diverse Path Using a Diverse-Path Route Reflector
- BGP Enhanced Route Refresh
- Configuring BGP Consistency Checker
- BGP—Origin AS Validation
- BGP MIB Support
- BGP 4 MIB Support for Per-Peer Received Routes
- BGP Support for Nonstop Routing (NSR) with Stateful Switchover (SSO) Using L2VPN VPLS
- BGP NSR Auto Sense
- BGP NSR Support for iBGP Peers
- BGP Graceful Shutdown
- BGP — mVPN BGP sAFI 129 - IPv4
- BGP-MVPN SAFI 129 IPv6
- BFD—BGP Multihop Client Support, cBit (IPv4 and IPv6), and Strict Mode
- BGP Attribute Filter and Enhanced Attribute Error Handling
- BGP Additional Paths
- BGP-Multiple Cluster IDs
- BGP-VPN Distinguisher Attribute
- BGP-RT and VPN Distinguisher Attribute Rewrite Wildcard
- VPLS BGP Signaling
- Multicast VPN BGP Dampening
- BGP—IPv6 NSR
- BGP-VRF-Aware Conditional Advertisement
- BGP—Selective Route Download
- BGP—Support for iBGP Local-AS
- eiBGP Multipath for Non-VRF Interfaces (IPv4/IPv6)
- L3VPN iBGP PE-CE
- BGP NSR Support for MPLS VPNv4 and VPNv6 Inter-AS Option B
- BGP-RTC for Legacy PE
- BGP PBB EVPN Route Reflector Support
- BGP Monitoring Protocol
- VRF Aware BGP Translate-Update
- BGP Support for MTR
- BGP Accumulated IGP
- BGP MVPN Source-AS Extended Community Filtering
- BGP AS-Override Split-Horizon
- BGP Support for Multiple Sourced Paths Per Redistributed Route
- Maintenance Function: BGP Routing Protocol
BGP Route-Map Continue Support for Outbound Policy
The BGP Route-Map Continue Support for an Outbound Policy feature introduces support for continue clauses to be applied to outbound route maps.
- Finding Feature Information
- Iinformation About BGP Route-Map Continue Support for Outbound Policy
- How to Filter Traffic Using Continue Clauses in a BGP Route Map
- Configuration Examples for BGP Route-Map Continue Support for Outbound Policy
- Additional References
- Feature Information for BGP Route-Map Continue Support for Outbound Policy
Finding Feature Information
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Iinformation About BGP Route-Map Continue Support for Outbound Policy
BGP Route Map with a Continue Clause
Subsequent to the Cisco implementation of route maps, the continue clause was introduced into BGP route map configuration. The continue clause allows for more programmable policy configuration and route filtering. The continue clause introduces the ability to execute additional entries in a route map after an entry is executed with successful match and set clauses. Continue clauses allow you to configure and organize more modular policy definitions so that specific policy configurations need not be repeated within the same route map. Before the continue clause was introduced, route map configuration was linear and did not allow any control over the flow of a route map.
- Route Map Operation Without Continue Clauses
- Route Map Operation with Continue Clauses
- Match Operations with Continue Clauses
- Set Operations with Continue Clauses
Route Map Operation Without Continue Clauses
A route map evaluates match clauses until a successful match occurs. After the match occurs, the route map stops evaluating match clauses and starts executing set clauses, in the order in which they were configured. If a successful match does not occur, the route map “falls through” and evaluates the next sequence number of the route map until all configured route map entries have been evaluated or a successful match occurs. Each route map sequence is tagged with a sequence number to identify the entry. Route map entries are evaluated in order starting with the lowest sequence number and ending with the highest sequence number. If the route map contains only set clauses, the set clauses will be executed automatically, and the route map will not evaluate any other route map entries.
Route Map Operation with Continue Clauses
When a continue clause is configured, the route map will continue to evaluate and execute match clauses in the specified route map entry after a successful match occurs. The continue clause can be configured to go to (jump to) a specific route map entry by specifying the sequence number, or if a sequence number is not specified, the continue clause will go to the next sequence number. This behavior is called an “implied continue.” If a match clause exists, the continue clause is executed only if a match occurs. If no successful matches occur, the continue clause is ignored.
Match Operations with Continue Clauses
If a match clause does not exist in the route map entry but a continue clause does, the continue clause will be automatically executed and go to the specified route map entry. If a match clause exists in a route map entry, the continue clause is executed only when a successful match occurs. When a successful match occurs and a continue clause exists, the route map executes the set clauses and then goes to the specified route map entry. If the next route map entry contains a continue clause, the route map will execute the continue clause if a successful match occurs. If a continue clause does not exist in the next route map entry, the route map will be evaluated normally. If a continue clause exists in the next route map entry but a match does not occur, the route map will not continue and will “fall through” to the next sequence number if one exists.
Note | If the number of community lists in a match community clause within a route map exceed 256 characters in a line, you must nvgen multiple match community statements in a new line. |
Set Operations with Continue Clauses
Set clauses are saved during the match clause evaluation process and are executed after the route-map evaluation is completed. The set clauses are evaluated and executed in the order in which they were configured. Set clauses are executed only after a successful match occurs, unless the route map does not contain a match clause. The continue statement proceeds to the specified route map entry only after configured set actions are performed. If a set action occurs in the first route map and then the same set action occurs again, with a different value, in a subsequent route map entry, the last set action may override any previous set actions that were configured with the same set command unless the set command permits more than one value. For example, the set as-path prepend command permits more than one autonomous system number to be configured.
Note | A continue clause can be executed, without a successful match, if a route map entry does not contain a match clause. |
Note | Route maps have a linear behavior, not a nested behavior. Once a route is matched in a route map permit entry with a continue command clause, it will not be processed by the implicit deny at the end of the route-map. For an example, see the “Examples: Filtering Traffic Using Continue Clauses in a BGP Route Map” section. |
How to Filter Traffic Using Continue Clauses in a BGP Route Map
Filtering Traffic Using Continue Clauses in a BGP Route Map
1.
enable
2.
configure
terminal
3.
router
bgp
autonomous-system-number
4.
neighbor
{ip-address |
peer-group-name}
remote-as
autonomous-system-number
5.
address-family
ipv4
[unicast |
multicast |
vrf
vrf-name]
6.
neighbor
{ip-address |
peer-group-name}
route-map
map-name {in |
out}
7.
exit
8.
exit
9.
route-map
map-name
{permit |
deny} [sequence-number]
10.
match
ip
address
{access-list-number |
access-list-name} [...
access-list-number | ...
access-list-name]
11.
set
community
{ { [community-number] [well-known-community] [additive]} |
none}
12.
continue
[sequence-number]
13.
end
14.
show
route-map
[map-name]
DETAILED STEPS
Examples
The following sample output shows how to verify the configuration of continue clauses using the show route-map command. The output displays configured route maps including the match, set, and continue clauses.
Device# show route-map route-map MARKETING, permit, sequence 10 Match clauses: ip address (access-lists): 1 metric 10 Continue: sequence 40 Set clauses: as-path prepend 10 Policy routing matches: 0 packets, 0 bytes route-map MARKETING, permit, sequence 20 Match clauses: ip address (access-lists): 2 metric 20 Set clauses: as-path prepend 10 10 Policy routing matches: 0 packets, 0 bytes route-map MARKETING, permit, sequence 30 Match clauses: Continue: to next entry 40 Set clauses: as-path prepend 10 10 10 Policy routing matches: 0 packets, 0 bytes route-map MARKETING, permit, sequence 40 Match clauses: community (community-list filter): 10:1 Set clauses: local-preference 104 Policy routing matches: 0 packets, 0 bytes route-map MKTG-POLICY-MAP, permit, sequence 10 Match clauses: Set clauses: community 655370 Policy routing matches: 0 packets, 0 bytes
Configuration Examples for BGP Route-Map Continue Support for Outbound Policy
Examples: Filtering Traffic Using Continue Clauses in a BGP Route Map
The following example shows continue clause configuration in a route map sequence.
The first continue clause in route map entry 10 indicates that the route map will go to route map entry 30 if a successful matches occurs. If a match does not occur, the route map will “fall through” to route map entry 20. If a successful match occurs in route map entry 20, the set action will be executed and the route map will not evaluate any additional route map entries. Only the first successful match ip address clause is supported.
If a successful match does not occur in route map entry 20, the route map will fall through to route map entry 30. This sequence does not contain a match clause, so the set clause will be automatically executed and the continue clause will go to the next route map entry because a sequence number is not specified.
If there are no successful matches, the route map will fall through to route map entry 30 and execute the set clause. A sequence number is not specified for the continue clause, so route map entry 40 will be evaluated.
There are two behaviors that can occur when the same set command is repeated in subsequent continue clause entries. For set commands that configure an additive or accumulative value (for example, set community additive, set extended community additive, and set as-path prepend), subsequent values are added by subsequent entries. The following example illustrates this behavior. After each set of match clauses, a set as-path prepend command is configured to add an autonomous system number to the as-path. After a match occurs, the route map stops evaluating match clauses and starts executing the set clauses, in the order in which they were configured. Depending on the number of successful match clauses, the as-path is prepended by one, two, or three autonomous system numbers.
route-map ROUTE-MAP-NAME permit 10 match ip address 1 match metric 10 set as-path prepend 10 continue 30 ! route-map ROUTE-MAP-NAME permit 20 match ip address 2 match metric 20 set as-path prepend 10 10 ! route-map ROUTE-MAP-NAME permit 30 set as-path prepend 10 10 10 continue ! route-map ROUTE-MAP-NAME permit 40 match community 10:1 set local-preference 104
In this example, the same set command is repeated in subsequent continue clause entries but the behavior is different from the first example. For set commands that configure an absolute value, the value from the last instance will overwrite the previous value(s). The following example illustrates this behavior. The set clause value in sequence 20 overwrites the set clause value from sequence 10. The next hop for prefixes from the 172.16/16 network is set to 10.2.2.2 and not 10.1.1.1.
ip prefix-list 1 permit 172.16.0.0/16 ip prefix-list 2 permit 192.168.1.0/24 route-map RED permit 10 match ip address prefix-list 1 set ip next hop 10.1.1.1 continue 20 exit route-map RED permit 20 match ip address prefix-list 2 set ip next hop 10.2.2.2 end
Note | Route maps have a linear behavior, not a nested behavior. Once a route is matched in a route map permit entry with a continue command clause, it will not be processed by the implicit deny at the end of the route map. The following example illustrates this case. |
In the following example, when routes match an AS-path of 10, 20, or 30, the routes are permitted and the continue clause jumps over the explicit deny clause to process the match ip address prefix-list command. If a match occurs here, the route metric is set to 100. Only routes that do not match an AS-path of 10, 20, or 30 and do match a community number of 30 are denied. To deny other routes, you must configure an explicit deny statement.
route-map test permit 10 match as-path 10 20 30 continue 30 exit route-map test deny 20 match community 30 exit route-map test permit 30 match ip address prefix-list 1 set metric 100 exit
Additional References
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Feature Information for BGP Route-Map Continue Support for Outbound Policy
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BGP Route-Map Continue Support for Outbound Policy |
The BGP Route-Map Continue Support for an Outbound Policy feature introduces support for continue clauses to be applied to outbound route maps. |