Description: This value is a unique index for the remote peer entry in the f10BgpM2PeerTable. It is assigned by the agent at the point of creation of the f10BgpM2PeerTable row entry. While its value is guaranteed to be unique at any time, it is otherwise opaque to the management application with respect to its value or the contiguity of f10BgpM2PeerIndex row instance values across rows of the f10BgpM2PeerTable. It is used to provide an index structure for other tables whose data is logically per-peer.

For explicitly configured peers, this value will remain consistent until this row is deleted by deleting the configured peers. Unconfigured peers will generate a monotonically increasing number when a BGP FSM is built to process the peering session. Values in the f10BgpM2PeerTable and other tables utilizing f10BgpM2PeerIndex are expected to remain in existence for an arbitrary time after the unconfigured peer has been deleted in order to allow management applications to extract useful management information for those peers. Thus, an unconfigured peer using the same indices as the f10BgpM2PeerTable that comes up while this row still exists will re-utilize the same row.