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title: "New Micro BGP Suite utility peerindex now released!"
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mobile_menu_title: "New utility peerindex is out!"
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date: 2021-07-27
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description: "The DoubleFourteen Code Forge is happy to announce that ubgpsuite has a new utility: peerindex!"
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series: [ "ubgpsuite - The Micro BGP Suite" ]
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categories: [ "news", "development" ]
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tags: [ "ubgpsuite", "peerindex", "bgpscanner", "C Language", "Networking", "BGP" ]
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news_keywords: [ "ubgpsuite", "peerindex", "bgpscanner" ]
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---
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## The Micro BGP Suite has a new utility: *peerindex*
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I am happy to announce that *µbgpsuite* has a new tool in its arsenal, *peerindex*.
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[peerindex](https://git.doublefourteen.io/bgp/ubgpsuite/src/branch/master/tools/peerindex)
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is a simple PEER INDEX TABLE inspection tool documented in its own gorgeous `man` [page](https://git.doublefourteen.io/bgp/ubgpsuite/src/branch/master/tools/peerindex/peerindex.1.in).
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When implementing *bgpgrep*, I removed any functionality not strictly related to BGP filtering dump,
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this included the PEER INDEX TABLE inspection feature previously provided by *bgpscanner*, that is:
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```sh
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$ bgpscanner -f
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```
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This command used to display every PEER INDEX TABLE entry referenced by at least one RIB entry.
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It was a useful tool to quickly recognize which peers populated a RIB dump.
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*µbgpsuite* will get a dedicated tool for this task, the main topic of this article: *peerindex*.
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In addition to showing only the referenced peers inside PEER INDEX TABLE, it can
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also dump the full table as is.
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> **Hint** -- as always, you can get a convenient PDF version of the manual page, like this:
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> ```sh
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> $ sed s/@UTILITY@/peerindex/g tools/peerindex/peerindex.1.in | groffer
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> ```
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>
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> Don't you love man pages? ☺
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Enjoy, and happy hacking,
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Lorenzo Cogotti
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