FW: BGP TTL Security

2008-02-14 Thread Ben Butler
IX and all peers are one hop away. Kind Regards Ben -Original Message- From: Danny McPherson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 February 2008 01:16 To: Ben Butler Cc: Hank Nussbacher Subject: Re: BGP TTL Security On Feb 14, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Ben Butler wrote: > Hi, > > I have

Re: BGP TTL Security

2008-02-14 Thread Danny McPherson
On Feb 14, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Ben Butler wrote: I have validated via trace in both directions as being 1 hop. I have read another article that implies the default behaviour at the other end will to be send TTL 1 not 255 and consequently I need to configure both ends to get the session to come

Re: BGP TTL Security

2008-02-14 Thread Danny McPherson
On Feb 14, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Ben Butler wrote: <=191 and the session stays down. Which is proper bizarre! Is it necessary to configure this on both side for the session to re-establish. Is this a Cisco bug? You're missing the fundamentals of what protection this mechanism is meat to provi

BGP TTL Security

2008-02-14 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, I am trying to implement BGP TTL security between one of my routers and an eBGP peer that is one hop away over a layer 2 IX. As soon as I add: neighbor 212.121.34.1 ttl-security hops 2 or neighbor 212.121.34.1 ttl-security hops 1 The peer drops to active/open sent with entries in syslog