[j-nsp] bgp summary outq

[David DeSimone]

Eric Van Tol <eric at atlantech.net> wrote:
>
> I noticed this morning that all my IPv6 BGP neighbors have what appear
> to be thousands of messages in the 'OutQ'.  It's only IPv6 neighbors. 
> The numbers continue to climb and I'm curious as to why.  I'm not
> dropping sessions and I can't imagine that the v6 route table
> fluctuates so much that all these messages would queue up:
> 
> ber2.ss.sls.md# run show bgp summary    
> Groups: 6 Peers: 8 Down peers: 0
> Table          Tot Paths  Act Paths Suppressed    History Damp State    Pending
> inet.0            644649     322548          0          0          0         24
> inet6.0                4          2          0          0          0          0
> Peer                     AS      InPkt     OutPkt    OutQ   Flaps Last Up/Dwn State|#Active/Received/Accepted/Damped...
> xxxx:xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:d040        1234     168393     172216       0       1     7w5d20h Establ
>   inet6.0: 1/2/2/0
> xxxx:xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:d041        1234     205620     210491       0       1     9w3d23h Establ
>   inet6.0: 1/2/2/0
> xxxx:xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:d044        1234       2431       2433       0       2    18:35:32 Establ
>   inet6.0: 0/0/0/0

I think this is just a presentation/column-alignment problem.  The
columns are intended to be "Peer" then "AS" then "InPkt" then "OutPkt"
then "OutQ", but due to the wide IPV6 address in the "Peer" column, the
"OutPkt" numbers are appearing underneath the "OutQ" label.

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David DeSimone == Network Admin == fox at verio.net
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