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Figure 8-8. AS Path attribute reported
Next Hop
The Next Hop is the IP address used to reach the advertising router. For EBGP neighbors, the Next-Hop
address is the IP address of the connection between the neighbors. For IBGP, the EBGP Next-Hop address
is carried into the local AS. A Next Hop attribute is set when a BGP speaker advertises itself to another
BGP speaker outside its local AS. It can also be set when advertising routes within an AS. The Next Hop
attribute also serves as a way to direct traffic to another BGP speaker, rather than waiting for a speaker to
advertise.
FTOS allows you to set the Next Hop attribute in the CLI. Setting the Next Hop attribute lets you
determine a router as the next hop for a BGP neighbor.
Multiprotocol BGP
MBGP for IPv6 unicast is supported on platforms e c
MBGP for IPv4 Multicast is supported on platform c e
s z
Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP (MBGP) is defined in IETF RFC 2858. MBGP allows different types of
address families to be distributed in parallel. This allows information about the topology of IP
Multicast-capable routers to be exchanged separately from the topology of normal IPv4 and IPv6 unicast
routers. It allows a multicast routing topology different from the unicast routing topology.
Note: It is possible to configure BGP peers that exchange both unicast and multicast network layer
reachability information (NLRI), but you cannot connect Multiprotocol BGP with BGP. Therefore, you
cannot redistribute Multiprotocol BGP routes into BGP.
FTOS#show ip bgp paths
Total 30655 Paths
Address Hash Refcount Metric Path
0x4014154 0 3 18508 701 3549 19421 i
0x4013914 0 3 18508 701 7018 14990 i
0x5166d6c 0 3 18508 209 4637 1221 9249 9249 i
0x5e62df4 0 2 18508 701 17302 i
0x3a1814c 0 26 18508 209 22291 i
0x567ea9c 0 75 18508 209 3356 2529 i
0x6cc1294 0 2 18508 209 1239 19265 i
0x6cc18d4 0 1 18508 701 2914 4713 17935 i
0x5982e44 0 162 18508 209 i
0x67d4a14 0 2 18508 701 19878 ?
0x559972c 0 31 18508 209 18756 i
0x59cd3b4 0 2 18508 209 7018 15227 i