Hi guys,
As I'm trying to understand the basic BGP way of working, I have a questiong that I need someones help to answer:
If I want to use in my AS as IGP, BGP, and I want all the updates to be sent as source from loopback interfaces, before all the BGP will go up, do I have to make static routes for all my speekers to all the loopbacks of all my peers? I mean in order for a router to have a neighbor relation with another one, it has to have the neigh IP in his routing table (from my understanding), as R1 to see R2's loop, do I have to add it before making the neigh statments a static route to this loopback?
Is it not possible to just add the loopback in the router bgp AS configuration as a "network" statment?
To be more precise what I am asking here I will try to give the simplest example that comes into my mind right now:
R1<->R2
R1 -> R2 directly connected with 10.10.10.0/32
R1 - has lo 1.1.1.1
R2 - has lo 2.2.2.2
for R1 I want as a neighbor 2.2.2.2
for R2 -> 1.1.1.1
from R1 to 2.2.2.2 has to be a static route? or I can just add in the network statment under bgp of R2, network 2.2.2.2 and R1 should learn it via BGP?
Thank You
Ivian
