Where is a prefix-list applied?

[Filip Knezevic]

Hello all!

Any Jedi Master CLI tricks to quickly check where a route-map or a prefix-list is applied? It can be very confusing when you have a lot of BGP sessions and want to know where is a certain map applied.

Let's say I want to know if there are are route-maps affecting 193.XXX.XXX.0/24 prefix. Yes there are. But I don't see where.

Herkul#sh conf | i 193.XXX.XXX.0
ip prefix-list BLA seq 5 permit 193.XXX.XXX.0/24
ip prefix-list BLA-Hosting seq 5 permit 193.XXX.XXX.0/24

This is saying there are prefix lists BLA and BLA-Hosting. But where?

[Jon Marshall]

If you just wanted to see all mentions of that prefix list - 

"sh run | include BLA"

if it was specifically for BGP - 

"sh run | include neighbor.*BLA

Jon

[Filip Knezevic]

Hello John,

Thanks for the reply.

I know that.

If I do sh run | i BLA it will tell me there is ip prefix-list and the sequenece number. So how can I see which route-map this prefix list belongs?

In the example:

Herkul#sh conf | i 193.XXX.XXX.0
ip prefix-list BLA seq 5 permit 193.XXX.XXX.0/24
ip prefix-list BLA-Hosting seq 5 permit 193.XXX.XXX.0/24

I want to see which route-map ip prefix-list BLA is applied to. 

I want to see which route-map ip prefix-list BLA -Hosting is applied to. 

Hope this makes sense.

[Jerome BERTHIER]

Hi

I guess that you already know but once you find the ACL matching your prefix :

- sh route-map (or more precise : sh route-map | i route-map|<acl_name>) : will print route map

- sh run | i <route-map_name> : will find the application point (interface, bgp peer...)

I don't think that there is another way.

Regards,

[Filip Knezevic]

Yes, the thing is I dont know the route-map. :)

This is a core router with dozens od BGP sessions and hundreds of route-maps. I'm troubleshooting a customer. I know their BGP session and route-map applied to THAT session. But I want to see if on any of the upstream peerings I have any filters regarding this prefix. 

Really strange system with prefix lists/route-maps. I would expect more flexibility in troubleshooting. It can be difficult with huge configurations. Easy in GNS3 though :).

[Filip Knezevic · Accepted solution]

Probably the best way is to copy the whole config in notepad, and just search for what you need :).

If there is no elegant way.