Forwarding versus protocol address

In Step 10, we configured our BGP neighbor and we also configured the forwarding and protocol addresses; understanding what each address is for is important for all the future dynamic routing configurations you may do. This section will explain what each address is used for and how it may impact your routing design.

Let's start by looking at the following figure. We can see a simplified overview of an initial routing topology that depicts the ESG, DLR CVM, and DLR on a Hypervisor:

As you can see, there are three IP addresses assigned to each of the interfaces, and all three IP addresses are in the same subnet. ...

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