Re: BGP over satellite link

[Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>]

> For a point-to-point link there are three possibilities:
> 3. the link is "unnumbered": it uses one of your IP addresses at your end,
>    and one of your provider's IP addresses at the other end, and they are
>    not in the same subnet.

bad practice.

> BGP multihop is almost _never_ a good choice.

i can think of two uses
  o a feed to a distant research measuring point
  o to fool a router pair to load balance across multiple
    parallel links

> - just use regular BGP peering, forget anyone mentioned multihop
> - run the peering session between the interface addresses which have
>   already been allocated for each end of the serial link.

strongly agree

randy


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