<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#990000"><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Hi All,</p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" aria-hidden="true" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">We have a 3 node setup where</p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" aria-hidden="true" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">   Node 1(FRR)<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Wingdings;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">ß</span>---------<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Wingdings;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">à</span> Node X <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Wingdings;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">ß</span>-------------<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Wingdings;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">à</span> Node 3(FRR)</p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" aria-hidden="true" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">So as per the setup FRR is running on Node 1 and Node 3 , and there is an intermediated node NodeX (say Node 2) between them, If we want to establish a BGP connection between Node 1 and Node 3 , we have to add a static route in FRR config like below –</p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" aria-hidden="true" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">ip route 192.168.23.3 255.255.255.255 192.168.12.2<br>neighbor 192.168.23.3 ebgp-multihop 2<br></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" aria-hidden="true" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Is there a way we could pass the gateway ip dynamically to Node 1 , instead of hard-coding it in config , because for our use case this ip could be 1 or many (<b>many gateways for load balancing</b>)</p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><br></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Thanks & Regards,</p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Sandeep Kumar</p></div></div>