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

Monitoring BGP Paths

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