Administrator Guide

Field Description
Dampening
enabled
Displayed only when you enable dampening. Displays the number of paths designated as
history, dampened, or penalized.
Neighbor Displays the BGP neighbor address.
AS Displays the AS number of the neighbor.
MsgRcvd Displays the number of BGP messages that neighbor received.
MsgSent Displays the number of BGP messages that neighbor sent.
TblVer Displays the version of the BGP table that was sent to that neighbor.
InQ Displays the number of messages from that neighbor waiting to be processed.
OutQ Displays the number of messages waiting to be sent to that neighbor. If a number appears
in parentheses, the number represents the number of messages waiting to be sent to the
peer group.
Up/Down
Displays the amount of time that the neighbor is in the Established stage. If the neighbor
has never moved into the Established stage, the word, “never”, is displayed.
The output format is:
Time
Established
Display Example
< 1 day 00:12:23 (hours:minutes:seconds)
< 1 week 1d21h (DaysHours)
> 1 week 11w2d (WeeksDays)
State/Pfxrcd
If the neighbor is in Established stage, the number of network prefixes received.
If a maximum limit was configured with the neighbor maximum-prefix command,
(prfxd) appears in this column.
If the neighbor is not in Established stage, the current stage is displayed (Idle, Connect,
Active, OpenSent, OpenConfirm). When the peer is transitioning between states and
clearing the routes received, the phrase (Purging) may appear in this column.
If the neighbor is disabled, the phrase (Admin shut) appears in this column.
Example
Dell#show ip bgp summary
BGP router identifier 192.168.11.5, local AS number 100
BGP local RIB : Routes to be Added 0, Replaced 0, Withdrawn 0
2 network entrie(s) using 152 bytes of memory
2 paths using 208 bytes of memory
BGP-RIB over all using 210 bytes of memory
2 BGP path attribute entrie(s) using 144 bytes of memory
1 BGP AS-PATH entrie(s) using 10 bytes of memory
2 neighbor(s) using 16384 bytes of memory
Neighbor AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/
Down State/Pfx
172.16.0.2 200 10 8 0 0 0
00:05:34 2
192.168.10.2 100 0 22 0 0 0
00:00:00 (shut)
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