Display BGP4 Statistics

Use one or more of the following commands to verify BGP4 information. The commands do not have to be entered in this order.

Enter the show ip bgp summary command.

device# show ip bgp summary

  BGP4 Summary
  Router ID: 192.117.117.36   Local AS Number: 1001
  Confederation Identifier: not configured
  Confederation Peers:
  Maximum Number of IP ECMP Paths Supported for Load Sharing: 1
  Number of Neighbors Configured: 1, UP: 0
  Number of Routes Installed: 4, Uses 384 bytes
  Number of Routes Advertising to All Neighbors: 4 (4 entries), Uses 240 bytes
  Number of Attribute Entries Installed: 1, Uses 104 bytes
  Neighbor Address  AS#         State     Time     Rt:Accepted Filtered Sent     ToSend
  192.117.117.3     1001        ACTIV     4h 5m 0s    0        0        0        4

This example output gives summarized BGP4 information.

Enter the show ip bgp routes command.

device# show ip bgp routes

Total number of BGP Routes: 4
Status A:AGGREGATE B:BEST b:NOT-INSTALLED-BEST C:CONFED_EBGP D:DAMPED
       E:EBGP H:HISTORY I:IBGP L:LOCAL M:MULTIPATH m:NOT-INSTALLED-MULTIPATH
       S:SUPPRESSED F:FILTERED s:STALE
       Prefix             Next Hop        MED        LocPrf     Weight Status
1      42.9.1.0/24        0.0.0.0         0          100        32768  BL
         AS_PATH:
2      42.9.2.0/24        0.0.0.0         0          100        32768  BL
         AS_PATH:
3      42.9.3.0/24        0.0.0.0         0          100        32768  BL
         AS_PATH:
4      42.9.4.0/24        0.0.0.0         0          100        32768  BL
         AS_PATH:

This example shows general BGP4 route information.

Enter the show ip bgp command.

device# show ip bgp

Total number of BGP Routes: 4
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i internal, S stale
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete
    Network            Next Hop        MED        LocPrf     Weight Path
*>  42.9.1.0/24        0.0.0.0         0          100         32768  i
*>  42.9.2.0/24        0.0.0.0         0          100         32768  i
*>  42.9.3.0/24        0.0.0.0         0          100         32768  i
*>  42.9.4.0/24        0.0.0.0         0          100         32768  i

This example shows general BGP4 information.

Enter the show ip bgp attribute-entries command.

device# show ip bgp attribute-entries

        Total number of BGP Attribute Entries: 1
1       Next Hop  : 0.0.0.0            MED      :0               Origin:IGP
        Originator:0.0.0.0            Cluster List:None
        Aggregator:AS Number :0            Router-ID:0.0.0.0          Atomic:None
        Local Pref:100               Communities:Internet
        AS Path   : (length 0)
           AsPathLen: 0  AsNum: 0, SegmentNum: 0, Neighboring As: 0, Source As 0
        Address: 0x67c1002c  Hash:364 (0x01000000)
        Links: 0x00000000, 0x00000000
        Reference Counts: 4:0:4, Magic: 1

This example shows information about one route-attribute entry that is stored in device memory.

Enter the show ip bgp peer-group command.

device# show ip bgp peer-group 

1   BGP peer-group is pg
      Address family : IPV4 Unicast 
        activate 
      Address family : IPV6 Unicast 
        no activate 
    Members:
       IP Address: 1.1.1.1, AS: 100 
       IP Address: 1::1, AS: 100 

2   BGP peer-group is pg6
      Address family : IPV4 Unicast 
        activate 
      Address family : IPV6 Unicast 
        no activate 
    Currently there are no members

This example shows output for two BGP peer groups, called “pg” and “pg6”.

Enter the show ip bgp routes command using the summary keyword.

device# show ip bgp routes summary

  Total number of BGP routes (NLRIs) Installed     : 1
  Distinct BGP destination networks                : 1
  Filtered bgp routes for soft reconfig            : 0
  Routes originated by this router                 : 1
  Routes selected as BEST routes                   : 1
  Routes Installed as BEST routes                  : 1
  BEST routes not installed in IP forwarding table : 0
  Unreachable routes (no IGP route for NEXTHOP)    : 0
  IBGP routes selected as best routes              : 0
  EBGP routes selected as best routes              : 0
  BEST routes not valid for IP forwarding table    : 0

This example shows summarized BGP4 route information.