Outgoing packet capture enabled for BGP neighbor 20.20.20.2
Available buffer size 40958758, 27 packet(s) captured using 562 bytes
PDU[1] : len 41, captured 00:34:52 ago
ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 00290104 000100b4 14141401 0c020a01
04000100 01020080
00000000
PDU[2] : len 19, captured 00:34:51 ago
ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 00130400
PDU[3] : len 19, captured 00:34:50 ago
ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 00130400
PDU[4] : len 19, captured 00:34:20 ago
ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 00130400
[. . .]
With full internet feed (205K) captured, approximately 11.8MB is required to store all of the PDUs.
The following example shows viewing space requirements for storing all PDUs.
Dell(conf-router_bgp)#do show capture bgp-pdu neighbor 172.30.1.250
Incoming packet capture enabled for BGP neighbor 172.30.1.250
Available buffer size 29165743, 192991 packet(s) captured using 11794257 bytes
[. . .]
Dell(conf-router_bgp)#do sho ip bg s
BGP router identifier 172.30.1.56, local AS number 65056
BGP table version is 313511, main routing table version 313511
207896 network entrie(s) and 207896 paths using 42364576 bytes of memory
59913 BGP path attribute entrie(s) using 2875872 bytes of memory
59910 BGP AS-PATH entrie(s) using 2679698 bytes of memory
3 BGP community entrie(s) using 81 bytes of memory
Neighbor AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/Pfx
1.1.1.2 2 17 18966 0 0 0 00:08:19 Active
172.30.1.250 18508 243295 25 313511 0 0 00:12:46 207896
PDU Counters
Additional counters for various types of PDUs that are sent and received from neighbors are also
supported.
These are seen in the output of the show ip bgp neighbor command.
Sample Configurations
The following example configurations show how to enable BGP and set up some peer groups. These
examples are not comprehensive directions. They are intended to give you some guidance with typical
configurations.
To support your own IP addresses, interfaces, names, and so on, you can copy and paste from these
examples to your CLI. Be sure that you make the necessary changes.
The following illustration shows the configurations described on the following examples. These
configurations show how to create BGP areas using physical and virtual links. They include setting up the
interfaces and peers groups with each other.
206 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)