[j-nsp] Peering with loopback

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:07:59AM -0800, Bill Blackford wrote:
> I'm running a mixed environment of Juniper and Cisco and have noticed
> some odd behavior with some of iBGP peers. It's my understanding that
> Junos has no equivalent to the Cisco 'update-source loobback0'. I
> haven't run into to problems peering with the respective loopback
> between a Cisco to Juniper but have with a Juniper to Juniper (that is
> attempting to bring the peers up via the loopbacks). Although my tests
> were limited and lack too many details, I'm curious if anyone has run
> up against this issue and what your recommendations are.

The issue I was talking about previously was when carrying multiple
AFI's and trying to do next-hop self on an IPv6 next-hop while using an
IPv4 neighbor. You should be fine with local-address and next-hop self
if you're just doing IPv4 next-hops.

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