> last time severall years ago on cisco I used a route-map to rewrite the > next-hop. > route-map xx-in permit 10 > set ip next-hop 42.666.77.11 > route-map xx-out permit 10 > set ip next-hop x.x.x.x > > neighbor 147.28.0.1 remote-as yyy > neighbor 147.28.0.1 ebgp-multihop 8 > neighbor 147.28.0.1 route-map xx-in in > neighbor 147.28.0.1 route-map xx-out out > > something like this.
as i showed, i knew how to hack out of the problem. and yes, there are many ways. the question is why i am in the corner in the first place. randy