Remember the BGP selection process.
lowest cisco local weight factor
greatest local preference
locally generated route
shortest AS path length
origin type
lowest MED
Best IGP path
lowest BGP route ID
I think there are a few I left out.
Later
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Kratzer [mailto:ck@toplink.net]
Sent: 23 April 2001 19:54
To: Scott Whyte
Cc: Marc Williams; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: set as-path prepend
Hi,
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Scott Whyte wrote:
> rfc1771, section 5.1.2:
>
> a) When a given BGP speaker advertises the route to another BGP
> speaker located in its own autonomous system, the advertising
> speaker shall not modify the AS_PATH attribute
associated with the
> route.
nevertheless as-path prending does also work inside an as with
ibgp sessions.
Local preference is a far better way to go with ibgp peers though.
Greetings
Christian Kratzer
Toplink
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Marc Williams wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does set as-path prepend only work with ebgp sessions?
> >
> > --
> > Marc
> >
> >
>
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