Hello, 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? Here my show protocol : birdc "show protocol all R12345_1” L1 name proto table state since info L2 R12345_1 BGP T12345_my_bgp up 2015-04-01 16:27:57 Established L3 Preference: 100 L4 Input filter: ACCEPT L5 Output filter: ACCEPT L6 Import limit: 20 L7 Action: disable L8 Routes: 1 imported, 21745 exported, 263 preferred L9 Route change stats: received rejected filtered ignored accepted 10 Import updates: 1 0 0 0 1 11 Import withdraws: 0 0 --- 0 0 12 Export updates: 21758 1 0 --- 21757 13 Export withdraws: 7 --- --- --- 7 14 BGP state: Established 15 Neighbor address: 10.10.10.100 16 Neighbor AS: 12345 17 Neighbor ID: 192.168.0.1 18 Neighbor caps: refresh AS4 19 Session: external AS4 20 Source address: 10.10.10.250 21 Route limit: 1/20 22 Hold timer: 150/240 23 Keepalive timer: 9/23 Can you help me about the line L8 : My peer import 1 route I export 21745 routes I don’t know about preferred Thank you Alexandre Corso Network Engineer acorso@franceix.net