Sure. Everything is actually routed hop-by-hop. As you've observed, that's a serious obstacle to multihop eBGP.
Most uses I've seen involve crossing a non-BGP router to a customer, and redistributing whatever the customer advertises into their IGP. Klunky for sure, but it does work. Aaron On Jun 24, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Mike Williams wrote: > Hey guys, > > I've got a situation I think I need multihop bgp for (logical-systems and > bridge-domains). > However it bugs me deeply that I don't "get" multihop BGP. > > My biggest bugbear is if my multihop-ebgp peer tells me he know the best way > to x.x.x.x, the packets I send towards him must be routed by intermediaries, > will those intermediaries use their tables and "hijack" my packets down their > bits of wet string through 15 other ASs and to the moon and back? > > Thanks > > -- > Mike Williams > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp