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At 08:02 PM 20/04/2004, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:45:20PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >     99.9% of all BGP links are direct connections (meaning that they
> >     terminate at a router rather then pass through one).  No packet to
> >     or from port 179 has any business being routed from one network to
> >     another in virtually all BGP link setups so the fix is utterly trivial.
>
>This isn't necessarily the case with eBGP multihop or route-server based
>setups.

Cogent and 360/GT both like to do ebgp multihop by default.

         ---Mike