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HS08
Valued Contributor
June 13, 2025
Question

BGP Update Source

When we setup BGP to other neighboor such as to Azure or to accros fortigate devices is BGP interface and update source is mandatory to be set? And also is needed to make static route to the BGP peer?

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Toshi_Esumi
SuperUser
SuperUser
June 13, 2025

By default, the outgoing interface IP would be used for the source IP. The neighbor IP needs to be reachable. BGP is an unicast protocol.

Toshi

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