Users Guide
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Description
(list of inbound and 
outbound policies)
Displays the policy commands congured and the names of the Route map, AS-PATH 
ACL, or Prex list congured for the policy.
For address family: Displays the IPv4 Unicast as the address family.
BGP table version Displays which version of the primary BGP routing table the router and the neighbor are 
using.
accepted prexes Displays the number of network prexes the router accepts and the amount of memory 
used to process those prexes.
Prex advertised Displays the number of network prexes advertised, the number rejected, and the number 
withdrawn from the BGP routing table.
Connections 
established
Displays the number of TCP connections established and dropped between the two peers 
to exchange BGP information.
Last reset Displays the amount of time since the peering session was last reset. Also states if the 
peer resets the peering session. If the peering session was never reset, the word never is 
displayed.
Local host: Displays the peering address of the local router and the TCP port number.
Foreign host: Displays the peering address of the neighbor and the TCP port number.
Example
Dell# show ip bgp neighbors 172.16.0.2
BGP neighbor is 172.16.0.2, remote AS 200, external link
 Member of peer-group port0 for session parameters
 BGP remote router ID 172.16.0.2
 BGP state ESTABLISHED, in this state for 00:13:55
 Last read 00:00:03, Last write 00:00:55
 Hold time is 180, keepalive interval is 60 seconds
 Received 50 messages, 0 in queue
 1 opens, 0 notifications, 34 updates
 15 keepalives, 0 route refresh requests
 Sent 18 messages, 0 in queue
 1 opens, 0 notifications, 0 updates
 16 keepalives, 0 route refresh requests
 Route refresh request: received 0, sent messages 1
 Minimum time between advertisement runs is 30 seconds
 Minimum time before advertisements start is 0 seconds
 Capabilities received from neighbor for IPv4 Unicast :
 MULTIPROTO_EXT(1)
 ROUTE_REFRESH(2)
 Capabilities advertised to neighbor for IPv4 Unicast :
 MULTIPROTO_EXT(1)
 ROUTE_REFRESH(2)
 ADD_PATH(69)
 CISCO_ROUTE_REFRESH(128)
 For address family: IPv4 Unicast
 BGP local RIB : Routes to be Added 0, Replaced 0, Withdrawn 0
 InQ : Added 0, Replaced 0, Withdrawn 0
 OutQ : Added 0, Withdrawn 0
 Allow local AS number 0 times in AS-PATH attribute
 Prefixes accepted 2, withdrawn 15 by peer, martian prefixes ignored 0
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