Does BGP support dynamic neighbours?

RouterOS Forwarding Protocols
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Hi,

Does RouterOS’s BGP implementation support ‘dynamic neighbors’? (I.E not setting IP for remote-address)

Cisco equivalent - http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bgp/configuration/xe-3sg/irg-xe-3sg-book/irg-dynamic-neighbor.html#GUID-40C1CA4F-5669-4495-8FEE-2D641E916858

Thanks

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Hi Marrold

No RouterOS does not support Dynamic Peers :frowning:

Maybe Mikrotik can implement it in RouterOS v7

Lack of this feature + RADIUS VSA to put PPP in a VRF are the only reason we still have Cisco ASR’s in our network.

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Of course when you e.g. want to run BGP over dialup connections you can define a number of peers, one for
each IP in the dialup address pool.
Unfortunately all the unreachable peers will be constantly logging info messages, so you may want to filter those.

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You can configure them in ‘passive mode’ so that only the remote peers will initiate the connections thus keeping the logs clean :slight_smile:

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Passive mode does not work in instances other than default :frowning:

It is a known bug in RouterOS v6

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I wasn’t aware of that! :frowning: