[c-nsp] BGPoPPPoEoA ?!

[Peter Rathlev]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 11:40 -0500, Adam Greene wrote:
> I can't establish the BGP session. Both sides are in active state, but
>  won't go further. 
> 
> The PE ATM interface is configured as IP unnumbered pointing to
>  Loopback 0. The CE BGP neighbor thus points to the PE Loopback IP
>  address. The PE BGP neighbor points to the IP address assigned to the
>  CE Dialer (a /32 from the /23 block on the PE Loopback). 

Can you ping from PE-loopback to CE-address?

> I saw that the CE was reporting that the external BGP neighbor is not
>  directly connected, so I issued "neighbor A.B.C.D
>  disable-connected-check" to no avail. 

I would've guessed "disable-connected-check" would do it, since there's
only one hop. But have you tried "ebgp-multihop", just for the fun of
it?

> Has anyone else successfully established BGP over PPPoEoA before?

Can't say I have, no, but I don't see why it couldn't be done. :-)

Regards,
Peter Rathlev