[c-nsp] BGP Black hole

[Brandon Ewing]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:11:43AM -0500, Jay Nakamura wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)
> <oboehmer at cisco.com> wrote:
> > You can also disable the check using "neighbor x.x.x.x
> > disable-connected-check"..
> 
> Is it safer to do "ebgp-multihop 2" since it will at least limit it to
> 2 hops instead of disabling it will not do any check at all?

I would imagine that the disable-connected-check is more useful, as
egp-multihop <anything> implies disabling the connected check completely.
The number just specifies what TTL will be used by the BGP packets.

-- 
Brandon Ewing                                        (nicotine at warningg.com)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/attachments/20110303/6b4701ab/attachment.pgp>