A project I have recently undertaken requires me to use linux based routing processes to communicate with other peers. The software I have chosen to run is bird2, which allows me to establish adjacencies with and BGP peer, Cisco or other.
I have noticed however, that I find myself google:ing the same commands over and over again. So I though I would collect all the commands I have found to be useful in a blog post, that I myself can refer back to. All commands will have a roughly equivalent command for a Cisco IOS-XE box, to make it easier to find the command you are looking for. :)
| Cisco command | bird2 command | Description |
|---|---|---|
| show ip bgp neighbor <neighbor peer ip> received-routes | show route protocol <neighbor name> | Used to show all routes received by a neighbor. |
| show ip bgp neighbor <neighbor peer ip> | show protocols all <neighbor name> | Used to view information regarding a specific peer. |
| show ip bgp summary | show status | Show some general information about the routing deamon. |
| show ip interface brief | show interfaces | This shows the current interface IP configuration. |