I noticed that you have: >I also have a static > default route from this router to our core router.
BGP neighbor will not come up if it is using a default route to reach a neighbor, try changing that to something more specific. Regards, Tom Kacprzynski -----Original Message----- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Gert Doering Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:03 PM To: msprouff...@yahoo.com Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] BGP active open failed Hi, On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:23:54AM -0800, msprouff...@yahoo.com wrote: > I'm seeing a strange issue on one of my cisco 7206 routers. I am > currently running Version 12.2(33)SRE3 > > BGP: x.x.x.x Active open failed - update-source NULL is not available, > open active delayed 9216ms (35000ms max, 60% jitter) > > The bgp neighbor is directly connected on a gig interface and I even > have the update-source command under the peer. update-source *what*? I interpret this error message as "the update-source points to an interface that doesn't exist on this machine, or is down" (like "update-source loop1" and you only have "loop0"). So it can't get an IP address, and fails. gert -- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de fax: +49-89-35655025 g...@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/