Verify that BGP is running on configured interfaces and that the BGP session is active for each neighbor address.
From the CLI, enter the show bgp neighbor command.
user@host> show bgp neighbor
Peer: 10.255.245.12+179 AS 35 Local: 10.255.245.13+2884 AS 35
Type: Internal State: Established (route reflector client)Flags: Sync
Last State: OpenConfirm Last Event: RecvKeepAlive
Last Error: None
Options: Preference LocalAddress HoldTime Cluster AddressFamily Rib-group Refresh
Address families configured: inet-vpn-unicast inet-labeled-unicast
Local Address: 10.255.245.13 Holdtime: 90 Preference: 170
Flags for NLRI inet-vpn-unicast: AggregateLabel
Flags for NLRI inet-labeled-unicast: AggregateLabel
Number of flaps: 0
Peer ID: 10.255.245.12 Local ID: 10.255.245.13 Active Holdtime: 90
Keepalive Interval: 30
NLRI advertised by peer: inet-vpn-unicast inet-labeled-unicast
NLRI for this session: inet-vpn-unicast inet-labeled-unicast
Peer supports Refresh capability (2)
Restart time configured on the peer: 300
Stale routes from peer are kept for: 60
Restart time requested by this peer: 300
NLRI that peer supports restart for: inet-unicast inet6-unicast
NLRI that restart is negotiated for: inet-unicast inet6-unicast
NLRI of received end-of-rib markers: inet-unicast inet6-unicast
NLRI of all end-of-rib markers sent: inet-unicast inet6-unicast
Table inet.0 Bit: 10000
RIB State: restart is complete
Send state: in sync
Active prefixes: 4
Received prefixes: 6
Suppressed due to damping: 0
Table inet6.0 Bit: 20000
RIB State: restart is complete
Send state: in sync
Active prefixes: 0
Received prefixes: 2
Suppressed due to damping: 0
Last traffic (seconds): Received 3 Sent 3 Checked 3
Input messages: Total 9 Updates 6 Refreshes 0 Octets 403
Output messages: Total 7 Updates 3 Refreshes 0 Octets 365
Output Queue[0]: 0
Output Queue[1]: 0
Trace options: detail packets
Trace file: /var/log/bgpgr size 131072 files 10
The output shows a list of the BGP neighbors with detailed session information. Verify the following information:
For a complete description of show bgp neighbor output, see the JUNOS Routing Protocols and Policies Command Reference.