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OmniAccess 5740 Unified Services Gateway CLI Command Reference Guide
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SHOW IP BGP SUMMARY
show ip bgp summary
DESCRIPTION
This command is entered in the Super User Mode or Configuration Mode. This 
command verifies whether peering is established with the router’s neighbors and 
displays the basic statistics for messages and prefixes.
PARAMETERS 
None.   
EXAMPLE
ALU# show ip bgp summary
BGP router identifier 111.111.111.111, local AS number 200
7 Prefix entries using 416 bytes of memory
7 Path entries for prefixes using 392 bytes of memory
Dampening enabled. 0 History paths. 2 Dampened paths
3 Path attribute entries using 672 bytes of memory
2 Aspath entries using 614 bytes of memory
2 Community entries using 44 bytes of memory
      
Neighbor        V    AS    MsgRcvd MsgSent  InQ OutQ Up/Down  State/PfxRcd
1.1.1.2         4   100     342     333     0    0   00:12:46  5
111.111.111.112 4   300     323     331     0    0   00:17:39  2
ALU#
Field Description
BGP router 
identifier 
In order of precedence and availability, router identifier 
specified by the BGP router-id command, loopback 
address, or lowest IP address.
local AS Local AS number.
Neighbor IP address of a neighbor. 
V BGP version number spoken to that neighbor.
AS Neighbor AS number.
MsgRcvd  BGP messages received from that neighbor. 
MsgSent  BGP messages sent to that neighbor. 
InQ  Number of messages from that neighbor waiting to be 
processed.
OutQ  Number of messages waiting to be sent to that neighbor.