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Newer page: version 4 Last edited on Thursday, July 1, 2004 4:09:43 pm by DanielLawson
Older page: version 3 Last edited on Thursday, July 1, 2004 3:01:16 pm by CraigMckenna Revert
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 Another solution is to enable ebgp-multihop on both BGP speakers, but I'm not sure this is a 'good' solution. Setting the TTL seems like the right thing to do here. 
  
 !! TTL Settings for BGP peering in debian (route2) 
  
-To get my BGP link to run over an IPv6 tunnel I've had to set the TTL of the tunnel to 255 by adding 'TTL 255' to the tunnels stanza in /etc/network/interfaces. 
+To get my BGP link to run over an IPv6 tunnel I've had to set the TTL of the tunnel to 255 by adding 'TTL 255' to the tunnels stanza in /etc/network/interfaces. If setting the 'ttl 255' fragment to your tunnel stanza doesn't work, try adding the following:  
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+ up /sbin/ip tunnel change $dev ttl 255  
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+Where $dev is your device name
  
 So far its working for one of my tunnels, just have to wait and see if it works for the other