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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:05:49PM +0200, Borja Marcos wrote:
> >Are there any "bad things" that can happen by doing this ?
> 
> 	Well, not every BGP sessions are established between directly 
> connected interfaces. This would not work with "multi-hop BGP" sessions 

GTSM works for multihop and this scenario is addressed in RFC3682.

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