[j-nsp] How does multihop eBGP work?

[Mike Williams]

On Friday 24 June 2011 17:49:28 Patrick Okui wrote:
> BGP only populates your idea of the next hop towards your destination.
> Once your packets leave your network to the intermediary autonomous
> systems they forward the packets based on their idea of the best next hop.
>
> Short of some combination of tunnelling &/or encryption there's no real
> way for you to control/verify what happened to the packets in transit.

Thanks to all who replied.

I was sort of hoping there would be a magical auto-encapsulation feature that 
nobody ever spoke about.

We've solved our original problem in a neatly elegant way, without multi-hop 
ebgp.

-- 
Mike Williams