Re: EBGP over unnumbered serial lines

[Dimitry Haskin <[e-mail]>]

> From: [e-mail] (Radha Gowda)
> Subject: EBGP over unnumbered serial lines
> 
> Here is Yakov's response to my question on whether it makes sense to
> support external BGP over unnumbered serial lines.  Yakov suggested
> that we bring this issue up in the mailing list.  All comments are 
> welcome.
> 
> > I think that the "same subnet" restriction is mostly intended to
> > make sure that the external neighbors are one hop away from each 
> > other (on a common Data Link subnetwork). I think the key question
> > you need to answer is what you are going to put in the NEXT_HOP attribute,
> > and whether what you'll put in the NEXT_HOP attribute would cause
> > any problems to the neighbor (when the neighbor receive a route with
> > this attribute).  I suspect (but I am not sure), that there
> > may be some problems associated with what you put in the NEXT_HOP
> > when you have serial line with unnumbered interfaces.
> 
> 
> 

And how would a TCP connection be handled between the unnumbered endpoints
of a serial line?

Dimitry