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# sk176714 - Routes received from a multi-hop BGP peer become inactive with error "Unable to resolve nexthop x.x.x.x from multihop peer"

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk176714 |
| Date Created | 2021-12-02 |
| Last Modified | 2021-12-11 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20 |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- * The routes received from a multi-hop BGP peer become inactive in the routing table.   
  `B H i x.x.x.x/32 is an unusable xxxxxxx`  
  `
  B H i y.y.y.y/32 is an unusable route xxxxxxxx`
* The routed debugs (sk101399) shows the following:   
  `Aug 6 18:21:06.089159 bgp_recv_process_nexthop(6070): x.x.x.x+45824 [eBGP AS 65501] Unable to resolve nexthop 10.y.y.y from multihop peer`  
  `
  Aug 6 18:21:06.089159 bgp_rt_reinit(8780): x.x.x.x+45824 [eBGP AS 65501] z.z.z.z/32 Unusable nexthop, marking route as unusable`

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