使用 Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, Nix 安装 bgpq4

项目链接

• 主页
• 上游文档
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• bgpq4

项目历史

The bgpq4 changelog explicitly records version 0.0.1 in 2019 as the point where bgpq3 was forked into bgpq4. The repository preserves older bgpq3 history back to the 2007 rewrite, but the bgpq4 line is documented as the post-2019 fork.

Early bgpq4 releases removed legacy options, improved performance by using IRRd 4's A query when available, and added Mikrotik support. Later releases reorganized the source tree, adopted OpenBSD-style formatting, reduced memory use with a red-black tree for ASN storage, and added outputs such as Junos as-path-origin, Nokia SR Linux, Mikrotik RouterOS v6/v7, Arista EOS, Huawei XPL, and other router-policy formats.

采用历史

The input metadata lists bgpq4 packages across Alpine, Homebrew, Debian, Fedora/DNF, Nix, and Ubuntu, and the upstream README includes a packaging-status badge. That breadth matters because bgpq4 is the sort of tool network engineers want available on jump hosts, CI runners, and laptops without hand-building it.

使用方式

The README describes bgpq4 as producing prefix lists, extended access lists, policy-statement terms, and AS-path lists from IRR objects. Operators pass ASNs, AS sets, route sets, or prefixes, select sources such as RPKI, AFRINIC, ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, and RIPE, and choose target syntax for Cisco, Juniper, BIRD, OpenBGPD, Nokia, Mikrotik, Huawei, Arista, or JSON output.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

bgpq4 is a package-nerd favorite because it condenses a brittle BGP edge-operations task into a single auditable binary. It is small C code, has no daemon to operate, emits plain text suitable for config generation pipelines, and exists precisely where package managers shine: getting a boring but critical network-ops tool onto many Unix-like systems.

时间线

• 2007: The inherited bgpq-family Git history begins with the bgpq3 rewrite.
• 2019: bgpq3 is forked into bgpq4; early releases remove legacy flags and use IRRd 4's A query when available.
• 2021: Version 1.3 reorganizes the repository, reformats large parts of the code, and reduces memory use.
• 2022: Version 1.5 adds Junos as-path-origin support.
• 2023: Versions 1.10 and 1.11 add Nokia SR Linux support and tighten AS23456 handling.
• 2026: Version 1.16 is released.

Related projects

• bgpq3 is the direct predecessor. The tool also lives beside IRRd, RADB-style IRR services, RPKI-aware workflows, and router stacks such as Cisco IOS/IOS XR, JunOS, BIRD, OpenBGPD, Nokia SR OS/SR Linux, Mikrotik RouterOS, Huawei, and Arista EOS.

来源

• https://api.github.com/repos/bgp/bgpq4
• https://github.com/bgp/bgpq4#readme
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bgp/bgpq4/main/CHANGES
• input.source_facts.package-manager