BGP – Cheatsheet (ATech) – Part-2 v1

Important BGP Address Families

BGP Packet Format AFI /sAFI No. Name Detail
8 16 24 32
AFI=0 Reserved -
Marker (128bit)

Length Type AFI=1 Ipv4 Internet Protocol version 4

AFI=2 Ipv6 Internet Protocol version 6
sAFI=134 vpnv4 VPN version 4
DATA
AFI=25 l2vpn Layer 2 VPN

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ICAOOE BGP Status Codes

BGP Neighbor States Code Detail
State Detail *(Valid) A valid route and BGP is able to use it
Idle Neighbor is NOT responding
> (Best) Currently selected best route out of all available routes
Connect TCP session established
s (Suppressed) BGP knows the network but won’t advertise it
Active Attempting to connect
BGP doesn’t advertise this network because it was Un-stable/flapping
d (Damped)
Open Sent Open message sent too often (so it got a penalty)

Open Confirm Response received h (History) BGP learned this network but doesn’t have a valid route at the moment

Established Adjacency established r (RIB-failure) BGP learned this network but didn’t install it in the routing table
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S (Stale) Used for non-stop forwarding
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BGP PATH ATTRIBUTES WLAAS OMNI ARN

No Attribute Name Category / Class
1 WEIGHT (Cisco) Highest Wt, Def=0 (0-65535) --

2 LOCAL_PREF Highest LP, Def=100 (0-4294967295) Well-Known Discretionary

3 AGGREGATE (Locally Originated?) (Network) Locally Originated via Aggregate/Network/Redistribution > Learned by a BGP Peer Optional Transitive

4 AS_PATH Shortest AS path Well-Known Mandatory

5 ORIGIN i/IGP > e/EGP > ?/Incomplete Well-Known Mandatory

6 MED (Metric) Lowest MED, Def=0 (0-4294967295) Optional Non-Transitive

7 Neighbor Type (eBGP > iBGP) eBGP -

8 IGP Metric (NEXT_HOP) Lowest IGP metric to the next BGP Hop Well-Known Mandatory
Oldest (more stable)
9 Route AGE -
This is for comparison only b/w eBGP routes
10 ROUTER ID (ORIGINATOR ID) Lowest RID Optional Non-Transitive
Lowest IP
11 Neighbor IP -
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