Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: BGP Adjacency States
To pass the BSCI exam, earn your CCNP certification, and become an outstanding networker, you’ve got to master the many details of BGP – and trust me, there are a lot of details to master! Before you get into the more advanced features of BGP, you should have the fundamentals down cold, and one of those fundamentals is knowing the BGP adjacency states. This will allow you to successfully analyze and troubleshoot BGP peer relationships.
In the following example, a BGP peering is being created between R1 and R3.
R1(config-router)#neighbor 172.12.123.3 remote-as 200
BGP speakers do not have to be in the same AS to become peers. To verify that the remote BGP speaker has become a peer, run show ip bgp neighbor.
R1#show ip bgp neighbor
BGP neighbor is 172.12.123.3, remote AS 200, external link
BGP version 4, remote router ID 0.0.0.0
BGP state = Active
Last read 00:01:39, hold time is 180, keepalive interval is 60 seconds
Received 0 messages, 0 notifications, 0 in queue
Sent 0 messages, 0 notifications, 0 in queue
Route refresh request:...