NAME

Net::BGPdump - Perl extension for libBGPdump

SYNOPSIS

use Net::BGPdump qw( :all );

my $io = Net::BGPdump->open($file, msgtype => BGP_MSG_UPDATE);

while (<$io>) {
  print "TIME: $_->{time}\n";
  print "TYPE: $_->{type}\n";
  printf("FROM: %s AS%d\n", $_->{from_addr}, $_->{from_as});
  printf("TO: %s AS%d\n", $_->{to_addr}, $_->{to_as});
  print "ORIGIN: $_->{origin}\n";
  print "ASPATH: $_->{as_path}\n";
  print "NEXT_HOP: $_->{next_hop}\n";
  if ($_->{announce}) {
    print "ANNOUNCE\n";
    for my $cidr (@{$_->{announce}}) {
      print "  $cidr\n";
    }
  }
  if ($_->{withdraw}) {
    print "WITHDRAW\n";
    for my $cidr (@{$_->{withdraw}}) {
      print "  $cidr\n";
    }
  }
}

DESCRIPTION

Net::PGPDump is a perl extension for libBGPdump, a C library designed to help with analyzing dump files produced by Zebra/Quagga or MRT.

The bgpdump library can be found here:

METHODS

The following methods are available to IO objects:

open($filename, %opts)

Opens a bgpdump file produced by Zebra/Quagga or MRT and returns a Net::BGPdump IO object. Files can be uncompressed, gzip or bzip2. Use a filename of '-' for reading STDIN.

The following keyword filtering options are accepted. The constants used for these options are exported via the :const or :all export tags, or individually.

type

exclude_type

Include or exclude records of the following types:

BGPDUMP_TYPE_MRTD_BGP
BGPDUMP_TYPE_MRTD_TABLE_DUMP
BGPDUMP_TYPE_TABLE_DUMP_V2
BGPDUMP_TYPE_ZEBRA_BGP

subtype

exclude_subtype

Include or exclude records of the following subtypes:

BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_BGP_NULL
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_BGP_UPDATE
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_BGP_PREFUPDATE
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_BGP_STATE_CHANGE
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_BGP_SYNC
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_BGP_OPEN
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_BGP_NOTIFICATION
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_BGP_KEEPALIVE
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_BGP_ROUT_REFRESH

BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_TABLE_DUMP_AFI_IP6
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_TABLE_DUMP_AFI_IP6_32BIT_AS
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_TABLE_DUMP_AFI_IP
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_TABLE_DUMP_AFI_IP_32BIT_AS
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_TABLE_DUMP_AFI_IP6
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_TABLE_DUMP_AFI_IP6_32BIT_AS
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_TABLE_DUMP_AFI_IP
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_MRTD_TABLE_DUMP_AFI_IP_32BIT_AS

BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_TABLE_DUMP_V2_PEER_INDEX_TABLE
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_TABLE_DUMP_V2_RIB_IPV4_UNICAST
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_TABLE_DUMP_V2_RIB_IPV4_MULTICAST
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_TABLE_DUMP_V2_RIB_IPV6_UNICAST
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_TABLE_DUMP_V2_RIB_IPV6_MULTICAST
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_TABLE_DUMP_V2_RIB_GENERIC
BGPDUMP_PEERTYPE_TABLE_DUMP_V2_AFI_IP
BGPDUMP_PEERTYPE_TABLE_DUMP_V2_AFI_IP6
BGPDUMP_PEERTYPE_TABLE_DUMP_V2_AS2
BGPDUMP_PEERTYPE_TABLE_DUMP_V2_AS4

BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_ZEBRA_BGP_MESSAGE
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_ZEBRA_BGP_MESSAGE_AS4
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_ZEBRA_BGP_STATE_CHANGE
BGPDUMP_SUBTYPE_ZEBRA_BGP_STATE_CHANGE_AS4

msgtype

exclude_msgtype

Include or exclude messages of the following types:

BGP_MSG_UPDATE
BGP_MSG_OPEN
BGP_MSG_NOTIFY
BGP_MSG_KEEPALIVE
BGP_MSG_ROUTE_REFRESH_01
BGP_MSG_ROUTE_REFRESH

ipv6

Include or exclude records involving IPv6 using 1 or 0, respectively.

begin_time

end_time

Exclude records with timestamps < begin_time or >= end_time.

Note: opening and handling more than one table dump file (as opposed to update files) will likely cause problems. See the BUGS section below for more information.

close()

Close the Net::BGPdump IO object.

read()

Return the next record as a hash reference. Records are possibly subject to filtering as specified in the open() constructor.

read_msg()

Return the next update record as a hash reference. This limits records to either MRTD or ZEBRA messages and discards things such as keepalive records. Records are possibly subject to filtering on ipv6 or time as specified in the open() constructor.

closed()

Return whether or not the file has been closed.

eof()

Return whether or not the end of the file has been reached.

filename()

Return the filename this IO object is reading.

file_type()

Return the type of file this IO object has opened: 'uncompressed', 'bzip2', or 'gzip'.

records()

Return the total number of records read so far from the file.

parsed_fail()

Return the number of records that have failed to parse so far.

parsed_ok()

Return the number of records successfully poarsed so far.

OPERATORS

IO objects can be used as filehandles, so <$io> works as expected.

ADDITIONAL CONSTANTS

The following constants can also be exported:

BGP_STATE_IDLE
BGP_STATE_CONNECT
BGP_STATE_ACTIVE
BGP_STATE_OPENSENT
BGP_STATE_OPENCONFIRM
BGP_STATE_ESTABLISHED

BUGS

* Opening and reading more than one table dump file (as opposed to mere update files) will likely cause a segfault since libbgpdump uses a single global index table each time a file of that type is opened and frees the structure whenever one of the files is closed, even if the other one is still using the index table.

* Corrupt files will cause perl to silently abort when a bad record is encountered and cannot be caught using eval(). This happens when libbgpdump attempts to call the err() function -- there is some sort of name collision with the perl library. Until this is fixed, files must unfortunately be checked ahead of time with gunzip or bunzip2.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2015 by Carnegie Mellon University

Use of the Net-BGPdump library and related source code is subject to the terms of the following licenses:

GNU Public License (GPL) Rights pursuant to Version 2, June 1991 Government Purpose License Rights (GPLR) pursuant to DFARS 252.227.7013

NO WARRANTY

See GPL.txt and LICENSE.txt for more details.