Just curious about BGP timer

rleung2001 · ‎01-10-2008

I thought when BGP either up or down, it would start the counter. Today, the result showed "never". I am just curious about it.

Is that mean the counter never able to start?

Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd

10.139.229.1 4 13979 0 0 0 0 0 never Active

Collin Clark · ‎01-10-2008

According to your output you are not establishing a BGP connection! Under State/PfxRcd there should be a number. Active means it still trying to establish the TCP session. Here's a good troubleshooting doc to help.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a008009478a.shtml

HTH and please rate.

IVAN PEPELNJAK · ‎01-10-2008

"never" means that the BGP session with the neighbor has not been established since the last reload.