[c-nsp] BGP path preference

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

Niels Bakker <> wrote on Friday, August 31, 2007 3:22 PM:

> * jlewis at lewis.org (Jon Lewis) [Thu 30 Aug 2007, 17:13 CEST]:
>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Andy Dills wrote:
>>> Don't forget that you can prepend incoming announcements as well as
>>> outgoing announcements.
>> 
>> This is what I'd do (and have done before) to even things out.  Some
>> would argue that when prepending received routes in a route-map, you
>> should prepend with your own ASN.
> 
> Once you pass that route to an iBGP speaker, it'll drop it as it sees
> its own ASN in the path
> 

well, IOS only performs the loop check when receiving paths from
external neighbors. But you would set the as-path prepend on your
outbound external sessions, little need of doing this within your AS,
usually..

	oli