Hi - I have a topology like this, using BIRD 1.6.7: -------------------+ +---------------------- AS 65001 | | AS 65002 | | +--------+ | | +--------+ iBGP ----| Router |---------------| Router |------- Router B ----| BIRD-A | | eBGP | | BIRD-B |------- Router C +--------+ | | +--------+ . . | | . . | | -------------------+ +----------------------
I want BIRD-B to reflect routes within its own AS, but also propagate routes to and from AS 65001. So for the eBGP peering I have protocol bgp ra1 { description "Connection to BGP peer"; local as 65002; gateway recursive; import all; export all; add paths on; connect delay time 2; connect retry time 5; error wait time 5,30; neighbor 172.31.1.2 as 65001; } and for the iBGP peerings template bgp nodes { description "Connection to BGP peer"; local as 65001; direct; gateway recursive; import all; export all; add paths on; graceful restart; connect delay time 2; connect retry time 5; error wait time 5,30; #next hop self; } protocol bgp node1 from nodes { neighbor 172.31.11.3 as 65001; rr client; } My question is how to get the ideal next-hop-self behaviour, which I think is - Do next-hop-self for routes from AS 65001 that are being passed on to Router B, C etc. Otherwise those routes will be unreachable. - Don't do next-hop-self for reflected routes. Next-hop-self isn't needed here, because the downstream Router B, C etc are already directly connected. Thanks in advance for any advice! Neil