Users Guide
Version Description
9.8(0.0P5) Introduced on the S4048-ON.
9.8(0.0P2) Introduced on the S3048-ON.
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S6000–ON.
9.2(1.0) Introduced on the Z9500.
9.0.2.0 Introduced on the S6000.
8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.
8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000.
8.3.7.0 Introduced on the S4810.
7.8.1.0 Introduced on the S-Series.
7.7.1.0 Introduced on the C-Series.
7.6.1.0 Introduced
Usage Information
BGP uses regular expressions (regex) to lter route information. In particular, the use of regular expressions to lter
routes based on AS-PATHs and communities is common. In a large-scale conguration, ltering millions of routes
based on regular expressions can be quite CPU intensive, as a regular expression evaluation involves generation
and evaluation of complex nite state machines.
BGP policies, containing regular expressions to match as-path and communities, tend to use much CPU processing
time, which in turn aects the BGP routing convergence. Additionally, the show bgp commands, which are
ltered through regular expressions, use up CPU cycles particularly with large databases. The Regex Engine
Performance Enhancement feature optimizes the CPU usage by caching and reusing regular expression evaluation
results. This caching and reuse may be at the expensive of RP1 processor memory.
Examples
DellEMC(conf-router_bgp)# no bgp regex-eval-optz-disable
DellEMC(conf-router_bgp)# do show ip protocols
Routing Protocol is "ospf 22222"
Router ID is 2.2.2.2
Area Routing for Networks
51 10.10.10.0/00
Routing Protocol is "bgp 1"
Cluster Id is set to 10.10.10.0
Router Id is set to 10.10.10.0
Fast-external-fallover enabled
Regular expression evaluation optimization enabled
Capable of ROUTE_REFRESH
For Address Family IPv4 Unicast
BGP table version is 0, main routing table version 0
Distance: external 20 internal 200 local 200
DellEMC(conf-router_bgp)#
Related Commands
• show ip protocols — view information on all routing protocols enabled and active on the E-Series.
Border Gateway Protocol 415