- Local router find the outgoing interface for the neighbor
- the IP of the outgoing interface is used as the source IP by default.
- With one link a failure in that link can lose the neighborship.
- configure two neighbor commands
- Use the loopback interfaces as TCP endpoints
- Loopback links between two AS might miss the route to the peer’s loopback
- fixed with multihop (TTL=255 instead of TTL=1).
- create routes between peers to reach loopback address.
- configure update-source so the right source-ip is used.
R10#(config)router bgp 10
R10#(config-router)neighbor 20.20.20.20 remote-as 20
R10#(config-router)neighbor 20.20.20.20 ebgp-multihop
R10#(config-router)neighbor 20.20.20.20 update-source loopback0
R20#(config)router bgp 20
R20#(config-router)neighbor 10.10.10.10 remote-as 10
R20#(config-router)neighbor 10.10.10.10 ebgp-multihop
R20#(config-router)neighbor 10.10.10.10 update-source loopback0