[c-nsp] static route with higher AD preferred over BGP

[Atif Sid]

Thanks. i missed the weight part !!

On 2/5/08, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) <oboehmer at cisco.com> wrote:
>
> Atif Sid <> wrote on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:53 AM:
>
> > I have a static route configured with Higher admin distance, intially
> > BGP route does does not install int routing table. after a flap in
> > BGP table the static route starts preferring, although the BGP AD is
> > lower then Static route which is 210.
> >
> > any insight is appereciated.
>
> AD comes into play when a route is known via multiple sources. In your
> case, BGP will prefer the redistributed static route due to its higher
> weight over the vpnv4 route you receive via iBGP (weight wins over
> localpref). To solve this (somewhat classical) problem, make sure you
> set the weight to zero (using a route-map) when redistributing the
> floating static into BGP (or set the weight of the ibgp vpnv4 prefixes
> to 32768). This way, BGP will prefer the iBGP path, installs it in the
> RIB, and this one wins over the floating static.
>
>        oli
>