Step 3: Verify That a Particular BGP Route Is Received on Your Router

Purpose

Display the routing information as it is received through a particular BGP neighbor and advertised by the local router to the neighbor.

Action

To verify that a particular BGP route is received on your router, enter the following JUNOS CLI operational mode command:

user@host> show route receive-protocol bgp neighbor-address

Sample Output

user@R6> show route receive-protocol bgp 10.0.0.2

inet.0: 18 destinations, 20 routes (18 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)

  Prefix                  Nexthop              MED     Lclpref    AS path

* 100.100.1.0/24          10.0.0.2             5       200        65001 I

* 100.100.2.0/24          10.0.0.2             5       100        65001 I

  100.100.3.0/24          10.0.0.2                     100        65001 I

  100.100.4.0/24          10.0.0.2                     100        65001 I

iso.0: 1 destinations, 1 routes (1 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)

user@R6> show route receive-protocol bgp 10.0.0.4 

inet.0: 18 destinations, 20 routes (18 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)

  Prefix                  Nexthop              MED     Lclpref    AS path

* 100.100.3.0/24          10.0.0.4                     100        65001 I

* 100.100.4.0/24          10.0.0.4                     100        65001 I

iso.0: 1 destinations, 1 routes (1 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)

What It Means

The sample output shows four BGP routes from R2 and two from R4. Of the four routes from R2, only two are active in the routing table, as indicated by the asterisk (*), while both routes received from R4 are active in the routing table. All BGP routes came through AS 65001.