Reference Guide

182 | Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)
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In Dell Networking OS, these origin codes appear as shown in the example below. The question mark (?)
indicates an Origin code of INCOMPLETE. The lower case letter (i) indicates an Origin code of IGP.
Figure 9-7. Origin attribute reported
AS Path
The AS Path is the list of all Autonomous Systems that all the prefixes listed in the update have passed
through. The local AS number is added by the BGP speaker when advertising to a eBGP neighbor.
In Dell Networking OS, the AS Path is shown in Figure 9-8. Note that the Origin attribute is shown
following the AS Path information.
Figure 9-8. AS Path attribute reported
Dell#show ip bgp
BGP table version is 0, local router ID is 10.101.15.13
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best
Path source: I - internal, a - aggregate, c - confed-external, r - redistributed, n - network
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete
Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path
*> 7.0.0.0/29 10.114.8.33 0 0 18508 ?
*> 7.0.0.0/30 10.114.8.33 0 0 18508 ?
*> 9.2.0.0/16 10.114.8.33 10 0 18508 701 i
Dell#show ip bgp paths
Total 30655 Paths
Address Hash Refcount Metric Path
0x4014154 0 3 18508 701 3549 19421 i
0x4013914 0 3 18508 701 7018 14990 i
0x5166d6c 0 3 18508 209 4637 1221 9249 9249 i
0x5e62df4 0 2 18508 701 17302 i
0x3a1814c 0 26 18508 209 22291 i
0x567ea9c 0 75 18508 209 3356 2529 i
0x6cc1294 0 2 18508 209 1239 19265 i
0x6cc18d4 0 1 18508 701 2914 4713 17935 i
0x5982e44 0 162 18508 209 i
0x67d4a14 0 2 18508 701 19878 ?
0 559972 0 31 18508 209 18756 i