Quick Start

Install from source code:

$ git clone https://github.com/smartbgp/libbgp
$ cd libbgp
$ python setup.py install

or pip:

$ pip install libbgp

Usage

$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 30 2016, 18:31:42)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.34)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> from libbgp.bgp.message import Message
>>> update_msg_dict = {
...     'type': 2,
...     'msg': {
...         'attr': {
...             1: 2,
...             2: [(2, [701, 71])],
...             3: '219.158.1.204',
...             5: 100,
...             6: 0,
...             7: [71, '16.96.243.103'],
...             8: ['NO_EXPORT', '1234:5678'],
...             9: '219.158.1.204',
...             10: ['219.158.1.209', '0.0.0.30']
...         },
...         'nlri': ['192.168.1.1/32', '172.16.1.1/32'],
...         'withdraw': []
...     }
... }
>>> update_msg = Message.pack(update_msg_dict)
>>> update_msg.hex_value
'\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\x00f\x02\x00\x00\x00E@\x01\x01\x02@\x02\x06\x02\x02\x02\xbd\x00G@\x03\x04\xdb\x9e\x01\xcc@\x05\x04\x00\x00\x00d@\x06\x01\x00\xc0\x07\x06\x00G\x10`\xf3g\xc0\x08\x08\xff\xff\xff\x01\x04\xd2\x16.\x80\t\x04\xdb\x9e\x01\xcc\x80\n\x08\xdb\x9e\x01\xd1\x00\x00\x00\x1e \xc0\xa8\x01\x01 \xac\x10\x01\x01'
>>> pprint(Message.unpack(update_msg.hex_value).dict())
{'msg': {'attr': {1: 2,
                  2: [(2, [701, 71])],
                  3: '219.158.1.204',
                  5: 100,
                  6: 0,
                  7: [71, '16.96.243.103'],
                  8: ['NO_EXPORT', '1234:5678'],
                  9: '219.158.1.204',
                  10: ['219.158.1.209', '0.0.0.30']},
         'nlri': ['192.168.1.1/32', '172.16.1.1/32'],
         'withdraw': []},
 'type': 2}
>>> Message.unpack(update_msg.hex_value).dict() == update_msg_dict
True
>>>

For more examples, Please reference libbgp/examples

Support

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