[c-nsp] Bgp question.

[Jon Lewis]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Joseph Jackson wrote:

> 	I have two routers that are connected to two differnet ISP's
> both are running BGP.  I have directly connected an interface the
> routers to each other to pass BGP info and also for redundency.  I
> didn't want to split up the /24 I am using so I am tring to use RFC1918
> addresses with a mask of /30 as the direct connections between the two
> routers.  I am able to bring the the bgp session up between them and
> share routes but traffic doesn't seem to want to go over that link. Any
> good boot to the heads clues for a bgp newbie?

Is each of your BGP peer's IPs reachable (in your IGP) from the other 
router, or are you doing next-hop-self?  My guess would be you are doing 
neither of these.

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