Cisco BGP Data

[CDR0124]

Can anyone give me a detail description of bgp data collected from cisco routers? It looks like the following:

Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path
* 3.0.0.0 207.126.96.1 20 0 6461 701 80 i
* 204.42.253.253 0 267 2914 701 80 i
* 216.140.8.63 3 0 6395 701 80 i
* 216.140.14.127 1596 0 6395 701 80 i
* 203.181.248.233 0 7660 1 701 80 i
* 212.4.193.253 0 8918 701 80 i
* 134.24.127.30 58 0 1740 701 80 i
* 216.140.2.63 6 0 6395 701 80 i
* 198.32.162.18 19303 0 4513 701 80 i
* 193.0.0.56 0 3333 9057 3356 701 80 i
* 207.172.6.173 31 0 6079 701 80 i
* 4.0.0.2 2115 0 1 701 80 i
*> 12.127.0.249 0 7018 701 80 i
* 204.70.4.89 0 3561 701 80 i
* 4.0.0.0 207.126.96.1 0 0 6461 1 1 1 1 i
* 203.62.248.4 0 1221 16779 1 i

I namely would like to know the specific meaning of the 'network' --- i.e. how does 3.0.0.0 or 4.0.0.0 relate to the rest of what is shown in each line?

Also, which AS is the start and which is the destination in the path? I assume the left is the start and the right is the destination (not including 0 and i of course). Finally, the 'next hop' follows what?

[CDR0124]

That data came out poorly, a better form of it is listed on this website:

http://www.routeviews.org/data.html

[Syngress]

The 'Network' answer was on the same page as you had linked to:-

Network - the BGP prefix for this route, which will include a prefix length (or mask) unless it has a "classical" (pre-CIDR) length of 0, 8, 16, or 24 bits corresponding to a default route (0 bits) or a class A, B, or C.
In some cases the network field may exceeded it's allotted space and the line will split. In others, the field is blank indicating it is another route for the prefix that appeared last.

Also the AS will read from right to left, so in you example it originated as an internal route, then went through AS80 then AS701