Resolve a BGP next-hop with another BGP route

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Mon Sep 30 01:52:22 CEST 2019


On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 08:49:57PM +0200, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It seems that bird can’t resolve the next-hop in that case. But there is
> no issue when the next-hop is announced by OSPF.

Hello

Yes. Technically it is not because the other route is also BGP, but
because the other route is also recursive / also has indirect next hop.
BIRD implements only one level of indirection.

Is this a problem? Which use cases require more levels of indirections?

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