--- nick@foobar.org wrote: multihop bgp means that you don't have synchronised ethernet carrier status between the provider and customer routers. This in turn means that if there's an intermediate connectivity problem, bgp will need to time out before it notices and reroutes. During this period, traffic will be black-holed. This is a crock. ------------------------------------------- Unless BFD is able to be used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional_Forwarding_Detection scott