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Troubleshooting BGP
Event log messages
For more information, see the Event Log Message Reference Guide.

Debug log messages

1. Logs per-peer BGP State Transitions.

2. Logs per-peer arrivals of a new BGP update.

3. Logs per-peer Time-outs (Hold-time, Graceful Restart Timeout.)

4. Logs Memory problems in case buffer-allocations fail.

No BGP peer relationship established

Symptom

Display BGP peer information using the show ip bgp neighbor command. A connection to a peer has
not been established.

Analysis

To become BGP peers, any two routers need to establish a TCP session using port 179 and exchange open
messages successfully.

Solution

1. Use the show ip bgp neighbor command to verify the peer’s IP address.

2. If the loopback interface is used, check whether the neighbor connect interface command is
configured.

3. If the peer is a non-direct eBGP peer, check whether the neighbor ebgp multihop command is
configured.

4. Check whether a route to the peer is available in the routing table.

5. Use the ping command to check connectivity.

6. Use the display tcp status command to check the TCP connection.

7. Check whether an ACL is configured that disables TCP port 179.

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