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### Instruction:
What is the purpose of the BGP TTL security feature?
### Response:
The BGP TTL security feature provides a lightweight security mechanism for protecting eBGP peerings. It uses the TTL field to verify that the peer is within a specified number of hops. Packets that exceed the hop count are discarded. It is configured with the neighbor ttl-security command.
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