<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was looking into BIRD 1.4.5. I have one BGP session established but I don’t understand all the argument, especially about preferred route?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here my show protocol :</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">birdc "show protocol all R12345_1”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">L1 name proto table state since info</div><div class="">L2 R12345_1 BGP T12345_my_bgp up 2015-04-01 16:27:57 Established</div><div class="">L3 Preference: 100</div><div class="">L4 Input filter: ACCEPT</div><div class="">L5 Output filter: ACCEPT</div><div class="">L6 Import limit: 20</div><div class="">L7 Action: disable</div><div class="">L8 Routes: 1 imported, 21745 exported, 263 preferred</div><div class="">L9 Route change stats: received rejected filtered ignored accepted</div><div class="">10 Import updates: 1 0 0 0 1</div><div class="">11 Import withdraws: 0 0 --- 0 0</div><div class="">12 Export updates: 21758 1 0 --- 21757</div><div class="">13 Export withdraws: 7 --- --- --- 7</div><div class="">14 BGP state: Established</div><div class="">15 Neighbor address: 10.10.10.100</div><div class="">16 Neighbor AS: 12345</div><div class="">17 Neighbor ID: 192.168.0.1</div><div class="">18 Neighbor caps: refresh AS4</div><div class="">19 Session: external AS4</div><div class="">20 Source address: 10.10.10.250</div><div class="">21 Route limit: 1/20</div><div class="">22 Hold timer: 150/240</div><div class="">23 Keepalive timer: 9/23</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can you help me about the line L8 :</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>My peer import 1 route</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I export 21745 routes</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I don’t know about preferred</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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