Compact BGPFilter to save switch memory #559
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With this the BGPFilter entries which are put into Route Maps per Switch Port for every allocated machine could potentially compacted by searching for smaller prefixes which cover the given cidrs.
A test is added which takes a sample from a large production entry of such a BGPFilter, the number of entries is cut in half.
This will also reduce the amount of data sent to metal-core during reconcile.
In our Test environment this changes the frr.conf like so (ips obfuscated):