The most specific prefix is always preferred.
- paul
At 12:15 PM 11/22/1999 -0800, Jay Stewart wrote:
>Can someone send me the route selection criteria that BGP4 uses to
>determine which route is most preferrable?
>
> >From my understanding, all things being equal, a shorter AS-Path will
>be chosen, regardless of the length of the prefix. In other words, if
>I advertise 10.0.0.0/8 with as path - {AS1 AS2}, and I advertise
>10.0.10.0/24 with as path prepending as such - {AS1 AS2 AS2}, will
>remote routers select the longer AS Path route due to the shorter
>prefix?
>
>Jay Stewart
>Vice President
>Olympia Networking Services - "The Northwest's Premier ISP"
>http://www.olywa.net
>
>
>
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