Re: eBGP Multihop

[Tony Li <tony.li () tony li>]

On Sep 2, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Graham Beneke wrote:

> I have been asked to investigate moving an entire network to multi-hop on all the eBGP sessions. Basically all 
> upstreams, downstreams and peers will eBGP with a route reflector located in the core. This RR will be some kind of 
> quagga or similar box. The dev guys want to be able to poke at the BGP feeds directly and do *magic* that standard 
> router aren't capable of.
>
> My gut feel is that this is a bad idea. Besides anything else it makes sane link state detection very challenging - 
> especially where we have multiple sessions with a peer.
>
> Is their any BCP or operational experience that agrees or disagrees with my gut. ;-)


Multihop eBGP is a debugging tool that a developer left in the production code.

Tony