BGP Next Hop Clarification

[aprather]

I'm having trouble understanding a simple concept.

I'm tracking down the path of a route to a destination across a few routers.  Running BGP/EIGRP/Static Routes.

I look at one of my routers and it tells me that the route is advertised from a router that is physically a few hops away, but according to BGP its the 'next hop'.  How do I really see what the actual next hop for this network is?

Sorry for this basic question.

[Nagendra Kumar Nainar · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Routing table (the output of "show ip route") will let you know the router from which the prefix is learnt/received as nexthop. Incase of BGP, it is possible that the nexthop is multihop away. It normally performs a recusive lookup to check the egress interface.

If you want to check the egress interface, you can use "show ipcef <>"

-Nagendra

[aprather]

Thanks, I was able to find the exiting interface via the show ipcef command.  It shows the physical next hope which is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks!