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?
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