I'm not familiar with BGPmon but your symptoms sounds like typical programming issue.
The '\' is stripped probably due to a "Stripslashes" function in the code. So by doing double '\\' you kinda trick the code into only doing the first one. I don't really know of any way around this. > Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:06:14 -0500 > Subject: BGPmon regex > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > I'm trying to edit my prefixes' AS path regex in BGPmon, and when I add a > '\s' in the Regular expression field, upon save, the '\' is stripped. > > Is this expected behavior? > > The workaround is to insert a '\\s' instead, but one needs to remember to > do this on every edit, and I tend to forget which results in panicking the > others on our team with false positives. > > -cjp
