[c-nsp] Late night BGP puzzler

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:38:36AM -0700, Peter Kranz wrote:
> Unfortunately, MED comes too late in the process for this example (equal as
> path length routes from 2 different AS#, one IGP and one EGP).. The only
> option is local_pref (or weight, but that could lead to trouble)
> 
> Step 5: Prefer the path with the lowest origin type.
> Note: IGP is lower than Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP), and EGP is lower
> than INCOMPLETE.

iBGP vs. eBGP is *not* IGP vs. EGP.  Different thing.

Normally you'll only very rarely see paths with different origin settings
for the same prefix (because it usually only happens if people do weird
things to their routers).

gert

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