Sample BGP Commands for Cisco Router

Here is a basic Cisco BGP commands

1. How do I remove a neighbor?

router(config)# router bgp
router(config-router)# no neighbor

2. How do I shutdown a session?

router(config)# router bgp
router(config-router)# neighbor shutdown

router(config)# router bgp
router(config-router)# no neighbor shutdown

3. How do I clear or restart a session?

router# clear ip bgp

4. How do I clear BGP session without hard reset?

router# clear ip bgp  soft out

5. How do I clear all BGP sessions?

router# clear ip bgp neighbor *

6. How do I display all BGP routes that contain subnet and supernet netmask?

router# show ip bgp cidr-only

7. How do I display routes that belong to the specified communities?

router# show ip bgp community community-number [exact]

8. How do I display routes that are permitted by community list?

router# show ip bgp community-list community-number [exact]

9. How do I display routes that are matched by the specified autonomouse system path access list?

router# show ip bgp filter-list access-list-number

10. How do I display the routes with inconsistent originating autonomous systems?

router# show ip bgp inconsistent-as

11. How do I display the routes that match the specified regular expression entered on the command line?

router# show ip bgp regexp regular-expression

12. How do I display the contents of the BGP routing table?

router# show ip bgp [network][network-mask][subnets]

13. How do I display routes learned from a paticular BGP neighbor?

router# show ip bgp neighbor [address][received-routes | routes | advertised
-routes | paths regular-expression | dampened-routes]

14. How do I display all BGP paths in the database?

router# show ip bgp paths

15. How do I display information about BGP peer groups?

router# show ip bgp peer-group [tag][summary]

16. How do I display the status of all BGP connections?

router# show ip bgp summary

17. How do I look at a BGP session to see if it is up?

router# show ip bgp neighbor

18. How do I see what routes are being seen?

router# show ip bgp neighbor routes

19. How do I see what routes are being advertised?

router# show ip bgp neighbor advertised-routes

Author: Chris Yoon

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