# Monitoring BGP Paths

#### Purpose

Display information about the most common BGP path attributes.

The show ip bgp paths and show bgp ipv6 paths commands display similar information.

#### Action

To display information about BGP paths:

    host1#show bgp ipv6 paths
    Address     Refcount  Metric  AS-path
    0x4B311118  1                 100
    0x4C548224  1         0       100
    0x4C548530  1         0       200
    0x4C548704  2         0       300

BGP internally maintains additional attributes that are not displayed—for example, the MED, local preference, and communities attributes.

#### Meaning

Table 43 lists the show bgp ipv6 paths command output fields.

Table 43: show bgp ipv6 paths Output Fields

Field Name | Field Description
--- | ---
Address | Hexadecimal number that uniquely identifies the path attributes
Refcount | Number of routes that share the path attributes
Origin | Value of the origin path attribute
Next hop | Value of the next-hop path attribute
AS-path | Value of the AS-path attribute

#### Related Documentation

- show bgp ipv6 paths
- show ip bgp paths