Basics of a BGP route: Seen in output from “show ip bgp”
Prefix and mask - what IP addresses are we talking about?
- 192.168.0.0/16 or 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0
Origin - How did the route originally get into BGP?
- “?” - incomplete, “e” - EGP, “i” - IGP
AS Path - what ASes did the route go through before it got to us?