neighbor ebgp-multihop

Allows eBGP neighbors that are not on directly connected networks and sets an optional maximum hop count.

Syntax

neighbor { ip-address | ipv6-address | peer-group-name } ebgp-multihop [ max-hop-count ]

no neighbor { ip-address | ipv6-address | peer-group-name } ebgp-multihop

Parameters

ip-address: IPv4 address of the neighbor
ipv6-address: IPv6 address of the neighbor
peer-group-name: Peer group name configured by the neighbor peer-group-name command.
max-hop-count: Maximum hop count. Range is from 1 through 255.

Modes

BGP configuration mode

BGP address-family IPv4 unicast VRF configuration mode

BGP address-family IPv6 unicast VRF configuration mode

Examples

The following example enables eBGP multihop and sets the maximum hop count to 20.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# router bgp
device(config-bgp-router)# neighbor 10.11.12.13 ebgp-multihop 20

The following example enables BGP4+ eBGP multihop for VRF instance "red" and sets the maximum hop count to 40.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# router bgp
device(config-bgp-router)# address-family ipv6 unicast vrf red
device(config-bgp-ipv6u-vrf)# neighbor 2001:2018:8192::125 ebgp-multihop 40