Cisco Cisco IOS Software Release 12.0(9)S

This document describes the BGP Policy Accounting feature in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(9)S. It includes 
the following sections:

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) policy accounting measures and classifies IP traffic that is sent to, or 
received from, different peers. Policy accounting is enabled on an input interface, and counters based on 
parameters such as community list, autonomous system number, or autonomous system path are 
assigned to identify the IP traffic.

Using the BGP table-map command, prefixes added to the routing table are classified by BGP attribute, 
autonomous system number, or autonomous system path. Packet and byte counters are incremented per 
input interface. A Cisco IOS policy-based classifier maps the traffic into one of eight possible buckets, 
representing different traffic classes.

Using BGP policy accounting, you can account for traffic according to the route it traverses. Service 
providers (SPs) can identify and account for all traffic by customer and bill accordingly. In 

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BGP policy accounting can be implemented in Router A to measure packet and byte volumes in 
autonomous system buckets. Customers are billed appropriately for traffic that is routed from a 
domestic, international, or satellite source.

12.0(9)S

This feature was introduced.