Well it had sounded like I was in the minority and should keep my mouth shut. But here goes. On several occasions the peer that would advertise our routes would drop and with that the peer with the full bgp tables would drop as well. That doesn't sound like the problem has anything to do with their multihop-eBGP configuration - It just appears that whatever you were
manolo wrote: directly connected to was flaking out. If they had moved you to a directly connected BGP session and it all worked, that would be one argument, but you also moved from a junky 3550 or something to the GSR in the process. I'd argue that if the switch could handle full tables and you just had a single session, you would probably have experienced the same issue. I've ran with both direct and multihop with Cogent, and I honestly never noticed any difference in stability. I hear what you're saying, and I think you have a valid argument in some respects, but I just think the BGP problem is a symptom, not a cause. _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog