From 33b6c292c3e3a8972d0b9f43d156aae50db65720 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Ondrej Zajicek (work)" <santiago@crfreenet.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:56:47 +0100
Subject: BGP: Allow to specify interface for regular sessions

This may be useful if multple interfaces share the same network range.

Thanks to Fritz Grimpen for the original patch.
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 doc/bird.sgml | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/bird.sgml')

diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml
index dd4472ae..ffd28964 100644
--- a/doc/bird.sgml
+++ b/doc/bird.sgml
@@ -1883,8 +1883,9 @@ using the following configuration parameters:
 	<tag><label id="bgp-iface">interface <m/string/</tag>
 	Define interface we should use for link-local BGP IPv6 sessions.
 	Interface can also be specified as a part of <cf/neighbor address/
-	(e.g., <cf/neighbor fe80::1234%eth0 as 65000;/). It is an error to use
-	this parameter for non link-local sessions.
+	(e.g., <cf/neighbor fe80::1234%eth0 as 65000;/). The option may also be
+	used for non link-local sessions when it is necessary to explicitly
+	specify an interface, but only for direct (not multihop) sessions.
 
 	<tag><label id="bgp-direct">direct</tag>
 	Specify that the neighbor is directly connected. The IP address of the
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