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Received Path Attribute Table

Received Path Attribute Table

                bgpPathAttrEntry OBJECT-TYPE
                    SYNTAX     BgpPathAttrEntry
                    MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
                    STATUS     obsolete
                    DESCRIPTION
                            "Information about a path to a network."
                    INDEX { bgpPathAttrDestNetwork,
                            bgpPathAttrPeer        }
                    ::= { bgpRcvdPathAttrTable 1 }

                BgpPathAttrEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
                    bgpPathAttrPeer
                         IpAddress,
                    bgpPathAttrDestNetwork
                         IpAddress,
                    bgpPathAttrOrigin
                         INTEGER,
                    bgpPathAttrASPath
                         OCTET STRING,
                    bgpPathAttrNextHop
                         IpAddress,
                    bgpPathAttrInterASMetric
                         Integer32
                }

                bgpPathAttrPeer OBJECT-TYPE
                    SYNTAX     IpAddress
                    MAX-ACCESS read-only
                    STATUS     obsolete
                    DESCRIPTION
                            "The IP address of the peer where the path
                            information was learned."
                    ::= { bgpPathAttrEntry 1 }

                bgpPathAttrDestNetwork OBJECT-TYPE
                    SYNTAX     IpAddress
                    MAX-ACCESS read-only
                    STATUS     obsolete
                    DESCRIPTION
                            "The address of the destination network."
                    ::= { bgpPathAttrEntry 2 }

                bgpPathAttrOrigin OBJECT-TYPE
                    SYNTAX     INTEGER {
                                   igp(1),-- networks are interior
                                   egp(2),-- networks learned via EGP
                                   incomplete(3) -- undetermined
                               }
                    MAX-ACCESS read-only
                    STATUS     obsolete
                    DESCRIPTION
                         "The ultimate origin of the path information."
                    ::= { bgpPathAttrEntry 3 }

                bgpPathAttrASPath OBJECT-TYPE
                    SYNTAX     OCTET STRING (SIZE (2..255))
                    MAX-ACCESS read-only
                    STATUS     obsolete
                    DESCRIPTION
                            "The set of ASs that must be traversed to
                            reach the network.  This object is
                            probably best represented as SEQUENCE OF
                            INTEGER.  For SMI compatibility, though,
                            it is represented as OCTET STRING.  Each
                            AS is represented as a pair of octets
                            according to the following algorithm:

                                first-byte-of-pair = ASNumber / 256;
                                second-byte-of-pair = ASNumber & 255;"
                    ::= { bgpPathAttrEntry 4 }

                bgpPathAttrNextHop OBJECT-TYPE
                    SYNTAX     IpAddress
                    MAX-ACCESS read-only
                    STATUS     obsolete
                    DESCRIPTION
                            "The address of the border router that
                            should be used for the destination
                            network."
                    ::= { bgpPathAttrEntry 5 }
                bgpPathAttrInterASMetric OBJECT-TYPE
                    SYNTAX     Integer32
                    MAX-ACCESS read-only
                    STATUS     obsolete
                    DESCRIPTION
                            "The optional inter-AS metric.  If this
                            attribute has not been provided for this
                            route, the value for this object is 0."
                    ::= { bgpPathAttrEntry 6 }


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