Used usually in a NBMA environment ,when there is no PVC between spoke to
spoke routers.
Thanks
Thangavel
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From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:54 PM
Subject: RE: Need Advice
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, suaveguru wrote:
>
> > hi anyone
> >
> > knows what's the purpose of using next-hop-self
> > statement in neighbor <ip address of neig>
> > next-hop-self ?
>
> This is so that when a router receives a route it learned via BGP, it sets
> itself as the "next-hop" attribute. So that when this route is passed on,
> in iBGP for example, the next-hop is that of itself and not the external
> neighbor. This is important, because a router will invalidate a route if
> it can not reach the "next-hop".
>
> Brian
>
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