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[matecs <>]

hi,
i've re-enabled bgp prefix packing that went out of service when we got 
addpath rx/tx support...
now it's functioning again and it saved 22% of the updates and 17% of the 
bytes... the latter is
quite low because these connections already use the 
draft-bgp-compressed-updates which takes
better care of this by reducing the bgp chattyness to 1/5 in average...
the 10.10.10.25 got the new code early and i let it ran for half a day and 
both the new and the
old code arrived to exactly the same rib-in after comparing them so it shows 
the correctness of
the current algorithm implemented... this testing involved a lot of 
incremental updates and some
route refreshes which induced a full reflooding then switching to the 
incremental mode...
br,
cs


sid#
sid#show ipv4 bgp 1955 unicast summary
neighbor      as    learn   accept  will  done  uptime
10.10.10.25   1955  902511  902511  0     0     12:36:31
10.10.10.150  1955  902511  902511  0     0     12:36:31
10.10.10.250  1955  902511  902511  0     0     12:36:31

sid#show ipv4 bgp 1955 connection
                    update        byte           refresh
neighbor      as    rx       tx   rx        tx   rx  tx
10.10.10.25   1955  2486636  765  49194431  259  0   0
10.10.10.150  1955  3604160  765  59023249  259  0   0
10.10.10.250  1955  3512223  765  57471381  259  0   0

sid#show ipv4 bgp 1955 unicast compare 10.10.10.25 10.10.10.250
% unique to 10.10.10.25
prefix  hop  metric  aspath

% unique to 10.10.10.250
prefix  hop  metric  aspath

% attribute differs
prefix  hop  metric  aspath

sid#show ipv4 bgp 1955 compression
                    operate     ratio
neighbor      as    rx    tx    rx     tx
10.10.10.25   1955  true  true  19.1%  227.1%
10.10.10.150  1955  true  true  16.3%  227.1%
10.10.10.250  1955  true  true  16.3%  227.1%

sid#