From: Tim Fletcher (tim@fletchmail.net)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 18:20:25 GMT-3
I don't think the issue is the update source, but the destination. If your
destination is a loopback, then it will be 2 hops away and require the
multihop statement.
-tim
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Paglia, John (USPC.PCT.Hopewell) wrote:
> I recently heard that if you are establishing your BGP neighbors using
> 'update source loopback 0', you should also use the 'ebgp-mu' cmd, even if
> the neighbors are directly connected...the reason being that your loopback
> is NOT directly connected to the neighbor. However, in my experiments I have
> never done this for neighbors that are directly connected, yet have
> established peerings successfully.
>
> Is there validity to this statement, and if so, under which circumstances is
> it absolutely vital, other than the 'non-physically or nbma topology'
> scenarios??? Something tells me that this may be an older IOS issue or
> something like that.
>
> John
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