Dear Cisco,
Re: AS-Path Access-lists
May we please have named as-path access lists in IOS? I’m really bored of my self-documenting configurations being effectively obfuscated by these ugly numbers I have to use in match statements.
I know you saw the light and allowed this in NX-OS, but don’t forget us poor old retro IOS users please. You might also consider adding some consistency between the configuration of these lists:
ip as-path access-list 1 permit ^$
… and the monitoring:
show ip as-path-access-list
I can never recall whether to use the extra hyphens (dashes) or not. Of course, on this particular matter, NX-OS users have their own hell to contend with:
show ip as-path list <name>
Do we have a deal? Great!
Cheers then,
J.
P.S. If you added them and I just missed that somehow, just let me know and I’ll send flowers or ritually sacrifice an SRX or something.
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Here here! I’ve got a really consistent naming scheme down for everything in IOS (studying for CCIE R&S), which really helps me create a readable config. However, the closes I can get with as-path access-lists is to give it the same number as one of the ASes I’m matching? Hardly useful in many cases!