Routing

why does 

root@srx1# run show route aspath-regex "1912 1620 5555 . (2222|3333) +1111"

Match this route 

inet.0: 551 destinations, 559 routes (512 active, 0 holddown, 40 hidden)
+ = Active Route, - = Last Active, * = Both

44.33.0.0/16 *[BGP/170] 00:12:13, localpref 150
AS path: 1912 1620 5555 4444 3333 2222 1111 I, validation-state: unverified
> to 172.16.101.1 via ge-0/0/4.101

H1.inet.0: 1 destinations, 1 routes (1 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)

H3.inet.0: 1 destinations, 1 routes (1 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)

inet6.0: 85 destinations, 94 routes (85 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)

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root@srx1#

from what I can see working right to left the match should fail on 4444

+1111 matches 1111

(2222|3333) matches 2222

.                   matches 3333

4444 does not match 5555

so why does it match ? so confused.  Any assistance appreciated, 

"1912 1620 5555 . (2222|3333) +1111"

Starts with: 1912 1620 5555

Also Contains either of these two: (2222|3333)

And contains: 1111

Hi !

The blanks between the ) and  the + are quite confusing, but they are neglected

In my opinion the + belongs to the previous term (2222|3333)

so the system read (2222|3333)+ 1111

which means one ore more of 2222 or 3333 or mixed and then the 1111

and then the result is okay

regards

alexander

Thankyou

Regards

Simon

Hi Simon,

Well  please find below the meaning for this regular expression,

root@srx1# run show route aspath-regex "1912 1620 5555 . (2222|3333) +1111"

What it means is the AS-PATH shouold begin with "1912 1620 5555"

then there is dot(.) wildcard which means any single ASN, in your case it matches 4444

after that there is parenthesis () which means to select either of the value 2222 or 3333

then there is + wildcard which means one or more times repetition of the preceding expression, which in this case is (2222 or 3333) therefore it matches 3333 2222.

and lastly it should end with 1111.

Adding all 1912 1620 5555 + 4444 + 3333 2222 + 1111 equals to the matching as-path set

AS path: 1912 1620 5555 4444 3333 2222 1111 I, validation-state: unverified

Kindly refer followinf document for details,

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/usage-guidelines/policy-configuring-as-path-regular-expressions-to-use-as-routing-policy-match-conditions.html

Regards,

Ankur

JNCIE*3 (SP|DC|ENT)

Hi,

Although it's already answered above, just wanted to add that just as in conventional regular expressions all the quantifiers (i.e. '*', '+', '?', {n}, etc.) always go AFTER the token. I.e 'a+b' will match 'ab', 'aab', 'aaab', etc. but not 'abb'.

In case of conventional regular expression 'a +b' will match 'a b', 'a  b', 'a   b', 'a     b', etc. (i.e. 'a' followed by one or more spaces and then 'b'), but in case of ASP regex the spaces are ignored as pointed out above.

thanks so much, so the key thing I was missing was that the + related to the preceeding expression,  I knew my understading was off somewhere  here thanks so much for your assitance