how to reduce routing table entries...

[gauravm]

i have a customer connected to my PE router .he is connected through ebgp.

he needs to have his routing table size reduced.

could anyone let me know how to achieve this ..i guess static routes will will be one solution...

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

there are various ways to achieve that: either you could configure aggregate addresses on your end, or you could filter what is goinf out at your end, or what is coming in at the customer PE end, suing distribute and prefix lists. Check these links for configuration examples:

Configuring BGP Route Filtering by Neighbor

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122cgcr/fipr_c/ipcprt2/1cfbgp.htm#wp1001443

Configuring BGP Filtering Using Prefix Lists

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122cgcr/fipr_c/ipcprt2/1cfbgp.htm#wp1001470

HTH,

GP