EBGP sends it hellos with a TTL of 1 (1 hop) by default. Specifiying how
many hops in the multihop command is a sort of security and traffic
managment measure I guess. Don't want your hellos traveling farther than
you want and have someone sniff them and peer up with you. Sounds unlikly
but I guess they were being paranoid when they wrote the protocol. Just a
safety measure I guess
I always set the hops to as many needed to get to my peer.
Tony M
#6172
----- Original Message -----
From: "suaveguru"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:15 AM
Subject: ebgp multihop values [7:17650]
> hi all ,
>
> anyone know why we put ebgp multi-hop where
> number can be 1 to 255 if it always work if we put ebg
> multi-hop without the which by default is
> 255 ?
>
>
> regards,
>
> suaveguru
>
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