Allowing establishment of an eBGP connection to a non-directly connected peer
In general, direct physical links should be available between eBGP peers. If not, you can use the
neighbor ip-address ebgp-multihop command to establish a TCP connection over multiple hops between two peers.
Follow these steps to allow establishment of eBGP connection to a non-directly connected peer.
To do... |
Use the command... |
Remarks |
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Enter global configuration context |
configuration |
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Enter BGP context |
bgp
as-number
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Allow the establishment of eBGP connection to a non-directly connected peer |
neighbor
ip-address
ebgp-multihop [hop-count]
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Optional. hop-count is 1 by default for eBGP peers |