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dexterous
Asked: 2016-08-02 18:57:14 +0800 CST

How can I make two routers to speak to each other when they both belong to two different subnet and AS?

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Here is my situation, I have a router R1 whose external IP address is 11.11.2.1. I have another router R2 whose external IP address is 5.5.2.1.

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I am running eBGP on R1 and R2. However, I cannot ping R2 from R1 and R1 from R2. How can I make them to ping each other? I know that they are in a different subnet. But, this can be a practical case where I don't want to force the external IP address to match the subnet of the other router interface.

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    With out "disable connected check command" also this scenario worked for me.Added a static route to neighboring route and achieved neighbor ship.

    R1#
router bgp 200
 no synchronization
 bgp log-neighbor-changes
 network 1.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0
 network 1.1.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0
 network 2.2.2.0 mask 255.255.255.0
 neighbor 11.11.2.1 remote-as 100
 no auto-summary


FastEthernet0/0            5.5.2.1       
Loopback0                  1.1.1.1        
Loopback2                  2.2.2.2       
!
!
ip route 11.11.2.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0
!
!
!
R1#show ip bgp summary 

Neighbor        V          AS MsgRcvd MsgSent   TblVer  InQ OutQ Up/Down  State/PfxRcd
11.11.2.1       4        100      19      19        3    0    0 00:17:05        0


!!
!!
!!


router bgp 100
 no synchronization
 bgp log-neighbor-changes
 neighbor 5.5.2.1 remote-as 200
 no auto-summary

    ! ! FastEthernet0/0 11.11.2.1
    ! !
    ! ip route 11.11.2.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0 !

    Neighbor        V          AS MsgRcvd MsgSent   TblVer  InQ OutQ Up/Down  State/PfxRcd
5.5.2.1         4        200      20      20        1    0    0 00:17:11        2
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  2. eBGP requires neighbours to be directly connected in the same subnet by default. If your two BGP neighbours are in different subnets then you will need to use an intermediate router in order to route BGP packets between the subnets.

    Static routes and the multihop BGP command would be required. You should take a check over some BGP documentation.

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  3. R1:

    ip route static 5.5.2.0 24 serial1/0

    R2:

    ip route static 11.11.2.0 24 serial1/0

    Ensure you can ping R1 <--> R2

    There after:

    R1:

    bg 100
neighbor 5.5.2.1 remote as 200
neighbor 5.5.2.1 disable-connected-check

    R2: 

    bgp 200
neighbour 11.11.2.1 remote as 100
neighbor 11.11.2.1 disable-connected-check
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