BGP's Finite State Machine

The finite-state machine associated with BGP is shown in Figure 11-15.

Figure 11-15. BGP's Finite State Machine

Note

Other BGP literature describes states 1 through 6 only. States -1 (prefix exceeded) and 0 (administrative shutdown) are specific to the Cisco implementation. To avoid confusion with state numbers used in other literature, in this book these Cisco specific states are numbered -1 and 0, respectively.

Eight possible states exist in BGP's finite-state machine:

  • –1 Prefix exceeded

    If the neighbor { ip-address | peer-group-name } maximum-prefix maximum BGP router configuration command is used, and if ...

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