 route servers are an excellent way to learn more about BGP, as they are a part of the largest network in the world and have active routes to just about every public network on Earth. Unless you're working at a tier-1 service provider, where else could you get to poke around with a BGP router that has 20 neighbors, 191,898 prefixes, and 3,666,117 paths? I have a pretty cool lab, but I can't compete with that! Here is the output from an actual route server: route-server>sho ip bgp summary BGP router identifier 10.1.2.5, local AS number 65000 BGP table version is 208750, main routing table version 208750 191680 network entries using 19359680 bytes of memory 3641563 path entries using 174795024 bytes of memory 46514 BGP path attribute entries using 2605064 bytes of memory 42009 BGP AS-PATH entries using 1095100 bytes of memory 4 BGP community entries using 96 bytes of memory 0 BGP route-map cache entries using 0 bytes of memory 0 BGP filter-list cache entries using 0 bytes of memory BGP using 197854964 total bytes of memory Chapter 10: Routing Protocols Dampening enabled. 2687 history paths, 420 dampened paths 191529 received paths for inbound soft reconfiguration BGP activity 191898/218 prefixes, 3666117/24554 paths, scan interval 60 secs Neighbor AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd 10.0.0.2 0 never Idle (Admin) 12.0.1.63 45038 208637 0 03:04:16 12.123.1.236 39405 208637 0 03:05:02 191504 12.123.5.240 39735 208637 0 03:05:04 191504 12.123.9.241 39343 208637 0 03:05:03 191528 12.123.13.241 39617 208637 0 03:04:20 191529 12.123.17.244 39747 208637 0 03:04:58 191505 12.123.21.243 39441 208637 0 03:04:28 191528 12.123.25.245 39789 208637 0 03:05:07 191504 12.123.29.249 39602 208637 0 03:04:16 191505 12.123.33.249 39541 208637 0 03:04:16 191528 12.123.37.250 39699 208637 0 03:04:26 191529 12.123.41.250 39463 208637 0 03:04:19 191529 12.123.45.252 39386 208637 0 03:04:20 191505 12.123.133.124 39720 208637 0 03:04:20 191528 12.123.134.124 39729 208637 0 03:04:22 191529 12.123.137.124 39480 208637 0 03: