CLI Guide

Field Description
command provides more details on the COMMUNITY
attributes.
Dampening
enabled
Displayed only when dampening is enabled. 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 (in hours:minutes:seconds) that
the neighbor is in the Established stage. If the neighbor has
never moved into the Established stage, the word never is
displayed.
State/Pfx
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 ipv6 unicast summary
BGP router identifier 5.5.10.4, local AS number 100
BGP table version is 12, main routing table version 12
2 network entrie(s) and 4 paths using 536 bytes of memory
1 BGP path attribute entrie(s) using 112 bytes of memory
1 BGP AS-PATH entrie(s) using 39 bytes of memory
IPv6 Border Gateway Protocol (IPv6 BGP)
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