BIRD show bgp summary for cli

[Cybertinus]

Hello Roman,

1. Bird 1.3.x is very old. Bird 1.6.8 and 2.0.7 are the current 
versions. If you still run on Bird 1.3 I highly recommend that you 
upgrade to at least 1.6.x

2. There is such a command already: `show protocols`. It doesn't show 
you how many prefixes you received from it, but is you ask for more 
detail it will: `show protocols all`. If you have a lot of peers, this 
will show you way to much information, so you can also request this info 
for 1 specific peer: `show protocols all 
<name_of_the_peer_in_the_bird_config>`. I don't know if these commands 
work on 1.3 though, but I think they would. I never used 1.3, I started 
using Bird when 1.6.4 was the latest and greatest and Bird 2 didn't 
exist yet.

Or is there some more you want to see from the `sh bgp sum` command that 
isn't shown by `show protocols`, even with more details?

Kind regards,
Cybertinus

On 2021-02-25 07:37, Roman Bulakh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we use BIRD in our environment, and it would be very nice to have some
> command like `show bgp summary` in juniper. This command show
> information about peer IP, peer AS, last update, prefixes
> received/best/exported and last state.
> 
> 
> Example:
> bird> show bgp summary
> Peer                    AS Last state change   Prfx rcvd/best/export
> State
> X.X.X.X           asXXXX 2021-01-27          6786/6785/109000
> Established
> Y.Y.Y.Y        asYYYY 2020-12-16          0/0/0
> Passive BGP Error: Hold timer expired
> 
> The are patch created for BIRD 1.3.4 and 1.3.6, but it would be good to
> have this in upstream software, without rebuilding and patching.
> 
> as I understand it, no functionality should be affected by these
> changes, this is only a visual update for cli.
> 
> Old patches describes at pages:
> https://marc.info/?l=bird-users&m=132155489919052&w=2
> http://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/attachments/20120228/a1499be7/attachment-0001.diff
> https://bird-users.network.narkive.com/Px6EH3yl/bird-1-3-6-show-bgp-summary-command