Hi,

I'm wondering a way to set TTL for iBGP sessions, but this seems not
possible. Apparently it's not possible in Cisco either; but e.g. BIRD
and possibly other implementations allow it.

Seems "ebgp-multiphop [ttl]" is clone from Cisco and works on eBGP
only. It seems to also change few other implementation details on how
the connection is handled.

And we do have "ttl-security hops [ttl]", but it's not exactly the same
thing. It requires both sides to have the option set, as TTL=255 is
expected (and e.g. Linux defaults to different ttl by default).

For my use case, ttl=1 would be preferred since I want the iBGP session
to succeed only if there is direct adjacency between my routers. So I'm
wondering how the configuration should look like. I'd also preferably
want to use the same config option regardless if it's ebgp or ibgp.

So I'm wondering if it'd make sense to make 'ebgp-multihop' work also
for ibgp, or just add a third 'ttl' option. Not sure which makes more
sense having three similar options, or two options and having the
option do more than usual. One more alternative would be to introduce
'ibgp-multihop'; but then it's different command depending if it's ibgp
or ebgp.

And finally, is there any patches somewhere that would do any of the
above?

Thanks,
Timo

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