[c-nsp] BGP Route selection

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:53:24AM -0500, Pete Templin wrote:
> You should tweak a different knob to achieve the desired results. 
> Origin code comes to mind as an easy twiddle.  Or, have the remote 
> routers send a community to request a particular local preference (as 
> someone else suggested) - you'll need a community-list and a route-map 
> to catch this.  Or just write a route-map to adjust local-pref or weight 
> upon local receipt of the prefix.

I'm wondering why this, which is a fair amount of configuration stuff and
lots of potential breakage, is supposed to be better than just telling
the router to *use* the MED...?

MED is a nice tool - and local-pref is most always way overkill.

gert
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