Dell S4810 Reference Manual page 469

exception where neighbor information corresponding to ignored updates is
displayed.
BGP shows the exact information that is exchanged between the BGP peers. It also
indicates whether or not this information is received by the BGP peer.
The following describes the show ip bgp neighbors command shown in the
following examples.
The Lines
Beginning with:
BGP neighbor
BGP version
BGP state
Last read
Received
messages
Sent messages
Received updates
Soft
reconfiguration
Minimum time
(list of inbound
and outbound
policies)
Border Gateway Protocol
Description
Displays the BGP neighbor address and its AS number. The
last phrase in the line indicates whether the link between the
BGP router and its neighbor is an external or internal one. If
they are located in the same AS, the link is internal;
otherwise the link is external.
Displays the BGP version (always version 4) and the remote
router ID.
Displays the neighbor's BGP state and the amount of time in
hours:minutes:seconds it has been in that state.
This line displays the following information:
• last read is the time (hours:minutes:seconds) the router
read a message from its neighbor
• hold time is the number of seconds configured between
messages from its neighbor
• keepalive interval is the number of seconds between
keepalive messages to help ensure that the TCP session
is still alive.
This line displays the number of BGP messages received, the
number of notifications (error messages), and the number of
messages waiting in a queue for processing.
The line displays the number of BGP messages sent, the
number of notifications (error messages), and the number of
messages waiting in a queue for processing.
This line displays the number of BGP updates received and
sent.
This line indicates that soft reconfiguration inbound is
configured.
Displays the minimum time, in seconds, between
advertisements.
Displays the policy commands configured and the names of
the Route map, AS-PATH ACL, or Prefix list configured for
the policy.
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