Field | Description |
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BGP neighbor | Router ID of the BGP neighbor. |
remote AS | Autonomous system number of the neighbor. |
local AS | Autonomous system number of the local system. |
internal link | internal link: iBGP neighbor (in the same AS). |
BGP version | The version of BGP being used by the neighbor device. |
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: 1. Route refresh 2. Address family IPv4 Unicast 3. Address family IPv6 Unicast |
Received | Message count, notification count, number of messages waiting in the queue. |
Sent | Message count, notification count, number of messages waiting in the queue. |
Route refresh request | Route requests sent and received. |
For address family | As stated – in this case IPv4 Unicast. |
BGP table version | For each of the address families agreed upon, BGP maintains a separate table. |
neighbor version | Tracks prefixes that have been sent and those that need to be sent. |
connections established | The number of times the router has established a TCP connection and the two peers have agreed to speak BGP with each other. “Dropped” means the number of time the connection has failed or gone down. |
local host foreign host | Local host is the IP address and the port number of the local system used for the peering session. Foreign host is the IP address and the port of the neighbor. BGP always uses the TCP port number 179 for the peer originating the session. |
nexthop | The IP address of the next hop used to reach the neighbor. eBGP or iBGP peers do not need to be directly connected. Peering sessions can be set up across multiple hops. If the neighbors are directly connected, the IP address of the local system is listed as the next hop. |
nexthop global | The global IPv6 address of the next hop |
nexthop local | The link-local IPv6 address of the next hop |
non shared network | The peering session is running on a non shared network. |
last reset | Time since this peering session was last reset. The reason for the reset is displayed on this line. |
notification error message | Last error message sent. |