[c-nsp] BGP sessions won't establish.

[Tim Durack]

Do you have ebgp-multihop configured on the loopback session?

Tim:>

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Roy <r.engehausen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are working with a new ISP for service.  This one is via metro ethernet.
>  They require two BGP sessions.  One goes between the ends of the ethernet.
>  The other BGP session is between a loopback interface on our router and a
> loopback interface on one of the ISP's other routers.
>
> The first session comes up just fine but the second one using loopback
> interfaces will not establish.  I did some packet traces using a Linux box
> and tcpdump and it would seem that the packets from our loopback session go
> into the metro ethernet and disappear.  When their router tries to connect,
> the packets arrive and responses are sent but they too seem to be ignored.
>
> The ISP blames us of course.  I told them the packets seem to be going out
> the switch port to the metro ethernet.
> Has anyone seem such a problem?  Is there some strange magic limit to the
> number of peers or something?
>
> Roy
>
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>
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