Display Sent or Received BGP Packets

Action

To configure the tracing for sent or received BGP protocol packets, follow these steps:

In configuration mode, go to the following hierarchy level:
[edit] user@host# edit protocol bgp traceoptions
Configure the flag to display sent, received, or both sent and received packet information:
[edit protocols bgp traceoptions] user@host# set flag update send

or

[edit protocols bgp traceoptions] user@host# set flag update receive

or

[edit protocols bgp traceoptions] user@host# set flag update
Verify the configuration:
user@host# show

For example:

[edit protocols bgp traceoptions] user@host# show file bgplog size 10k files 10; flag update send;

or

[edit protocols bgp traceoptions] user@host# show file bgplog size 10k files 10; flag update receive;

or

[edit protocols bgp traceoptions] user@host# show file bgplog size 10k files 10; flag update send receive;
Commit the configuration:
user@host# commit
View the contents of the file containing the detailed messages:
user@host# run show log filename

For example:

[edit protocols bgp traceoptions] user@host# run show log bgplog Sep 13 12:58:23 trace_on: Tracing to "/var/log/bgplog" started Sep 13 12:58:23 BGP RECV flags 0x40 code ASPath(2): <null> Sep 13 12:58:23 BGP RECV flags 0x40 code LocalPref(5): 100 Sep 13 12:58:23 BGP RECV flags 0xc0 code Extended Communities(16): 2:10458:3 [...Output truncated...]