Field | Description |
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BGP neighbor | Neighbor identifier along with the local and remote Autonomous System numbers. |
BGP version | The version of BGP being used by the neighbor device, along with the remote router ID number. |
BGP state | The current state of the neighbor connection and length of time within the current state. Possible states are: Idle, Connect, Active, and Established. |
Last read | The amount of time in Hours: Minutes: Seconds since this device last checked the Hold Time parameters. |
hold time | The amount of time this device waits for a Keepalive or Update message before the BGP connection is closed. |
Keepalive interval | KEEPALIVE messages are sent periodically to ensure that the connection is live. |
Neighbor capabilities | New or optional parameters called “Capabilities.” Provides a graceful way to advertise new or unique options without causing peering to terminate. The capabilities are communicated in TLV fields. (see RFC 3392). In the example output above, the following capabilities were advertised by the neighbor and were received and understood by this device: • Route refresh • Address family IPv4 Unicast • Address family IPv6 Unicast |
Route refresh | This helps to identify that and synchronize the peers without a hard reset. |
For address family | Address Family Identifier (AFI) IPv4 Unicast. |
Received messages | Information received from the neighbors. |
notifications | Passes information to a router about sessions. |
in que | Number of messages currently residing in the queue awaiting action. |
Route refresh request | Information received and sent. |
Minimum time between advertisement runs | Interval between exchange of messages. |
For address family: IPv4 Unicast | The following three values are subordinate to the IPv4 Unicast Address Family. |
Community attributes sent to this neighbor | Both the standard and the extended community information has been sent to the neighbor. |
accepted prefixes | Configure a limit to the number of prefixes that can be accepted in a BGP peer session. |
announced prefixes | A prefix announced in BGP consists of the IPV4 or IPV6 address block being announced. |