[c-nsp] ebgp vs ibgp admin distance

[Shakeel Ahmad]

Agreed to this... Philp Smith (Cisco) also recomended the same ... as best
practice.


Shakeel


On 8/11/06, sthaug at nethelp.no <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote:
>
> > Routes are matched against BGP best path selection. If you have same
> > metrics/variables of a prefix received via eBGP and iBGP, eBGP will win.
> >
> > Then onto admin distance, 20 for ebgp, 200 for ibgp.
>
> I have seen several places where Cisco recommends setting admin distance
> the same (200) for both EBGP and IBGP. A Cisco BGP workshop held in
> Stockholm, Sweden in February 2003 (by Alvaro Retana and Daniel Walton)
> recommended the following BGP template:
>
>         router bgp XXXX
>          bgp deterministic-med
>          no synchronization
>          no auto-summary
>          distance 200 200 200
>
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
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