Will Dowling wrote:

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Thanks for the link. So do you advise against sending commands directly to the BIRD control socket?

Not at all, that???s all those scripts are doing :)

The only thing you???ll need to watch out for is the output separators in BIRDC output (numbers). I can confirm that we???re using this for monitoring in production without any issues.

Thanks again. I think this quick and dirty script will do: echo "show route filter tomsk" |\ nc -w1 -U /var/run/bird.ctl |\ sed '2s/^1007-//g' |\ awk '/via 212\.73\.124\.1/{print $1}' >\ /usr/local/www/apache22/data/prefixdb/tomsk.txt -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru