When is it appropriate to useBGP neighbor X.X.X.X next-hop-self?

From: Eddie (guitardudez@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Oct 20 2001 - 03:32:00 GMT-3

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I am on page 417 of Halabi's BGP book. He wants us to
configure BGP with route reflectors. Why do I need to
use next-hop-self statements. I know that the purpose
is to Disable the next hop calculation for this
neighbor, but I am confused as to why would we want to
do this?
Thanks for any input.
Eddie

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