Dear Group, Doing BGP stuff in the lab now and I'm having a problem getting iBGP routes into the routing table. After fixing up the problems getting neighbors talking properly, I cannot see BGP routes. All the routes are from loop-backs on 4 routers in a full mesh. The routes being advertised are not being advertised by another igp. I'm also looking at the Hutnick/Satterlee book which takes you by the hand but I'm not getting the same results. It states there are 2 conditions to be met to get routes into the routing table. BGP knows about the routes through the network command - condition #1 The routes do show up on their local router as "directly connected" and therefore are in the local ip routing table. - Condition 2 All routes show up in all routers in the bgp table on every router. I'm now looking at next-hop-self, but so far it didn't seem to help. The book's examples end up with a local pref of 0 whereas mine shows 100, not sure of the significance. A colleague mentioned iBGPs high admin distance (200) was keeping the routes out ...... but the routes are not being advertised by any other means except iBGP - so....... shouldn't they be there?? Anyway, short of posting configs - any quick ideas? (long ones too will be tried) Kevin Wigle _________________________________ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]