EBGP Multihop enables you to establish a neighbor connection between two external peers that are not directly connected. Multihop is available only for eBGP and is not available in for iBGP. When the firewall has an external neighbor that does not have a direct connection, you can use the ebgp−multihop command to establish a neighbor connection.
To configure EBGP Multihop, configure routers R1 and R2 as follows: