Basic EBGP Question

[laxmicisco]

DO i need to add the default route towards my upstream BGP peers when establishing the EBGP peer ??

[Jon Marshall]

You should not need to use a default route. 

Normally EBGP peers are directly connected so no need for a route at all but if the peers are multiple L3 hops away from each other then on your peer you would need a static route for the peer IP address and a valid next hop IP so your BGP router knows how to reach the peer IP address. 

Jon

[Deepak Kumar]

Hi,

As if your EBGP peer is not directly connected then you need a static route. The BGP is not trusting on the default route. The same question I asked in this week and faced the same issue as I have a default route can reach the remote peer but neighborship was not happening. 

Be aware that if BGP is not directly connected then it also required ebgp-multihop commands additional to configuration.