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

[Roy]

Jay Hennigan wrote:
> Roy wrote:
>> Just to bring everybody up to date, the ISP keeps saying its 
>> something we are doing.  To eliminates any quirks, we have a spare 
>> router directly connected to the metro ethernet box now.  All the 
>> hardware is different and we have tried several version of IOS.  The 
>> config has been stripped down to bare bones.  I have attached the 
>> relevant portion.  The first session (the neighbor ending in .233) 
>> comes up.  The other one (ending in .18) fails
>
> Are both sessions perhaps going to the same router on the remote side? 
> It won't be happy establishing two sessions to the same neighbor.  Can 
> you create another loopback and have the ISP point their neighbor on 
> the second session to it?
>
> Or if directly connected EBGP over metro ethernet on the same subnet, 
> just use the ethernet interface for the updates.
>
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Different routers.  The one that works is at the other end of the 
ethernet.  The one that doesn't is one behind it I think.  They told me 
to use ebgp-multihop 5.  The packet trace shows their packets arriving 
with a TTL of 4.  ON the off chance of some weird path, I changed 
ebgp-multihop to 10 without fixing things