A few questions about BGP output and commands

[hfakoor222]

1)Is that the address in Hex below?     Also what does Refcount mean?

[MHM Cisco World · Accepted solution]

The following list explains some of the fields that appear in the preceding output from the

show ip bgp paths

command.

• Address— Memory address of where the path is stored.

• Hash— Hash bucket where the path is stored.

• Refcount— Number of prefixes using that path.

• Metric— Multi-exit ...

[hfakoor222]

How can I interpret or translate that memory hash in where it's stored to something I can understand?

Or how can I make use of it?

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

good question. The only thing I could find that might explain the concept of the hash buckets is the thread below. It has to do with CEF and 16 hash buckets...

https://community.cisco.com/t5/routing/cef-load-sharing/td-p/2464585

[hfakoor222]

would anyone know off hand what the

show ip gp

memory hashes in the above image mean?

Thanks

[MHM Cisco World]

Tonight i will send you case we use this hash.

Dont worry 

[MHM Cisco World]

https://community.cisco.com/t5/server-networking/l2vpn-evpn-e-bgp-peers-flapping/m-p/4620716#M13424

example how we can use some show BGP command to resolve problem.