Administrator Guide

• View information about local BGP state changes and other BGP events.
EXEC Privilege mode
debug ip bgp [ip-address | peer-group peer-group-name] events [in | out]
• View information about BGP KEEPALIVE messages.
EXEC Privilege mode
debug ip bgp [ip-address | peer-group peer-group-name] keepalive [in | out]
• View information about BGP notications received from or sent to neighbors.
EXEC Privilege mode
debug ip bgp [ip-address | peer-group peer-group-name] notifications [in | out]
• View information about BGP updates and lter by prex name.
EXEC Privilege mode
debug ip bgp [ip-address | peer-group peer-group-name] updates [in | out] [prefix-list name]
• Enable soft-reconguration debug.
EXEC Privilege mode
debug ip bgp {ip-address | peer-group-name} soft-reconfiguration
To enhance debugging of soft recong, use the bgp soft-reconfig-backup command only when route-refresh is not negotiated
to avoid the peer from resending messages.
In-BGP is shown using the show ip protocols command.
Dell Networking OS displays debug messages on the console. To view which debugging commands are enabled, use the show
debugging
command in EXEC Privilege mode.
To disable a specic debug command, use the keyword no then the debug command. For example, to disable debugging of BGP updates,
use no debug ip bgp updates command.
To disable all BGP debugging, use the no debug ip bgp command.
To disable all debugging, use the undebug all command.
Storing Last and Bad PDUs
Dell Networking OS stores the last notication sent/received and the last bad protocol data unit (PDU) received on a per peer basis. The
last bad PDU is the one that causes a notication to be issued.
In the following example, the last seven lines shown in bold are the last PDUs.
Example of the show ip bgp neighbor Command to View Last and Bad PDUs
Dell(conf-router_bgp)#do show ip bgp neighbors 1.1.1.2
BGP neighbor is 1.1.1.2, remote AS 2, external link
BGP version 4, remote router ID 2.4.0.1
BGP state ESTABLISHED, in this state for 00:00:01
Last read 00:00:00, last write 00:00:01
Hold time is 90, keepalive interval is 30 seconds
Received 1404 messages, 0 in queue
3 opens, 1 notifications, 1394 updates
6 keepalives, 0 route refresh requests
Sent 48 messages, 0 in queue
3 opens, 2 notifications, 0 updates
43 keepalives, 0 route refresh requests
Minimum time between advertisement runs is 30 seconds
Minimum time before advertisements start is 0 seconds
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Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)