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.