DearMaurizio and Colin, Thank youfor your responses. It was bymistake that I send an example where BGP messages are not coming from the samepeer. All four messages in the example were supposed to have same peer, andannounced IP address while different AS-PATH attribute. In thatcase I would have three implicit withdrawals, right? Colin, Are yousuggesting that if I look at five-days worth of BGP update messages and tryingto count how many implicit withdrawals during that time I have that I need to checkfirst appearance of every announced IP address and check if it is ‘truly’ newannouncement or possibly an implicit withdrawal that happened prior to the timeframe I am looking at? Also, Iwas completely ignoring the state change messages. Are you referring to the messagesbelow? I am not sure what to make out of those. Bestregards, Ado TIME:2001-9-16 00:00:09 TYPE:BGP4MP/BGP4MP_STATE_CHANGE AFI_IP FROM:192.65.185.151 OLD STATE:3 NEW STATE: 2 TIME:2001-9-16 00:00:09 TYPE:BGP4MP/BGP4MP_STATE_CHANGE AFI_IP FROM:192.65.185.151 OLD STATE:2 NEW STATE: 3