Multihop BGP cannot use direct gateway mode - misidentification of multihop sessions?

Alex Bligh alex at alex.org.uk
Wed Aug 13 12:28:05 CEST 2014


Ondrej,

On 13 Aug 2014, at 10:57, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> wrote:

>> 
>> How do I change it to a 'direct' (as opposed to multihop) session?
> 
> Use 'direct' option:
> 
>    <tag>direct</tag>
>    Specify that the neighbor is directly connected. The IP address of the
>    neighbor must be from a directly reachable IP range (i.e. associated
>    with one of your router's interfaces), otherwise the BGP session
>    wouldn't start but it would wait for such interface to appear. The
>    alternative is the <cf/multihop/ option. Default: enabled for eBGP.

Thanks

-- 
Alex Bligh




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