Concept Guide

The following example shows how to view space requirements for storing all the PDUs. With full internet feed (205K) captured,
approximately 11.8MB is required to store all of the PDUs.
DellEMC(conf-router_bgp)#do show capture bgp-pdu neighbor 172.30.1.250
Incoming packet capture enabled for BGP neighbor 172.30.1.250
Available buffer size 29165743, 192991 packet(s) captured using 11794257 bytes
[. . .]
DellEMC(conf-router_bgp)#do sho ip bg s
BGP router identifier 172.30.1.56, local AS number 65056
BGP table version is 313511, main routing table version 313511
207896 network entrie(s) and 207896 paths using 42364576 bytes of memory
59913 BGP path attribute entrie(s) using 2875872 bytes of memory
59910 BGP AS-PATH entrie(s) using 2679698 bytes of memory
3 BGP community entrie(s) using 81 bytes of memory
Neighbor AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/Pfx
1.1.1.2 2 17 18966 0 0 0 00:08:19 Active
172.30.1.250 18508 243295 25 313511 0 0 00:12:46 207896
PDU Counters
Dell EMC Networking OS supports additional counters for various types of PDUs sent and received from neighbors.
These are seen in the output of the show ip bgp neighbor command.
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Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)