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# BGP Monitoring Protocol
-GoBGP supports [BGP Monitoring Protocol](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-bmp/).
+GoBGP supports [BGP Monitoring Protocol (RFC 7854)](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7854), which provides a convenient interface for obtaining route views.
## Prerequisites
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## <a name="config"> Configuration
-Add `[bmp-servers]` session to enable BMP like below.
+Add `[bmp-servers]` session to enable BMP.
```toml
[global.config]
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port=11019
```
+Flows can be post or pre-policy. Pre-policy flows are the default. To enable post-policy support change the configuration as follows.
+
+```toml
+[[bmp-servers]]
+ [bmp-servers.config]
+ address = "127.0.0.1"
+ port=11019
+ route-monitoring-policy = "post-policy"
+```
+
+
## <a name="verify"> Verification
Let's check if BMP works with a bmp server. GoBGP also supports BMP server (currently, just shows received BMP messages in the json format).