[c-nsp] eBGP & backup static route

[Tim Franklin]

On Tue, February 17, 2009 2:21 pm, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote:

> don't think this will help as a locally-originated route is preferred
> over almost anything due to the higher weight (32768, if I recall
> correctly), so the eBGP path will not be installed (and would win over
> the static due to admin distance). you need to set the weight on the
> eBGP path to be the same (or higher) value or reduce it to zero (to
> match the eBGP path) when redistributing the static (not 100% sure if
> the latter works, I think it does)..

It does indeed.  'set weight 0 / set local-pref less-than-default' is in
the route-map for pretty much all our redistributing back-up routing
protocols into BGP.

Regards,
Tim.