Dell PowerSwitch S4820T 9.50.1 Configuration Guide for the S4820T System - Page 202

For the router's identifier, Dell Networking OS uses the highest IP address of the Loopback interfaces configured. Because Loopback interfaces are virtual, they cannot go down, thus preventing changes in the router ID. If you do not configure Loopback interfaces, the highest IP address of any interface is used as the router ID. To view the status of BGP neighbors, use the show ip bgp neighbors command in EXEC Privilege mode as shown in the first example. For BGP neighbor configuration information, use the show running-config bgp command in EXEC Privilege mode as shown in the second example. NOTE: The showconfig command in CONFIGURATION ROUTER BGP mode gives the same information as the show running-config bgp command. The following example displays two neighbors: one is an external internal BGP neighbor and the second one is an internal BGP neighbor. The first line of the output for each neighbor displays the AS number and states whether the link is an external or internal (shown in bold). The third line of the show ip bgp neighbors output contains the BGP State. If anything other than ESTABLISHED is listed, the neighbor is not exchanging information and routes. For more information about using the show ip bgp neighbors command, refer to the Dell Networking OS Command Line Interface Reference Guide. The following example shows the show ip bgp neighbors command output. Dell#show ip bgp neighbors BGP neighbor is 10.114.8.60, remote AS 18508, external link BGP version 4, remote router ID 10.20.20.20 BGP state ESTABLISHED, in this state for 00:01:58 Last read 00:00:14, hold time is 90, keepalive interval is 30 seconds Received 18552 messages, 0 notifications, 0 in queue Sent 11568 messages, 0 notifications, 0 in queue Received 18549 updates, Sent 11562 updates Minimum time between advertisement runs is 30 seconds For address family: IPv4 Unicast BGP table version 216613, neighbor version 201190 130195 accepted prefixes consume 520780 bytes Prefix advertised 49304, rejected 0, withdrawn 36143 Connections established 1; dropped 0 Last reset never Local host: 10.114.8.39, Local port: 1037 Foreign host: 10.114.8.60, Foreign port: 179 BGP neighbor is 10.1.1.1, remote AS 65535, internal link Administratively shut down BGP version 4, remote router ID 10.0.0.0 BGP state IDLE, in this state for 17:12:40 Last read 17:12:40, 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 Received 0 updates, Sent 0 updates Minimum time between advertisement runs is 5 seconds For address family: IPv4 Unicast BGP table version 0, neighbor version 0 0 accepted prefixes consume 0 bytes Prefix advertised 0, rejected 0, withdrawn 0 202 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)