That will work. Although why are you ebgp-ing more than a few hops away? Loopback to loopback? You dont need 255 for that ;)
You can also use neighbor 1.1.1.1 disable-connected-check if you have loopback peering with loopback. Cheers, Matt On 06/05/2008, khalid aljorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings all, > > when using the command " nei a.b.c.d ebgp-multihop XX" do i have to mention > the exact number of hop(s) away or typing 255 will take care if i am not > sure about the number of hops away?? > > thanks >
