[j-nsp] JUNOS Equivalent to CISCO IOS next-hop-self

Daniel Roesen dr at cluenet.de
Mon Dec 15 19:56:41 EST 2003


On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:51:45PM -0800, Pedro Roque Marques wrote:
> > Which is generally a bad idea because color influences the best path
> > decision process (if only as a very late criteria).
> 
> I don't believe that is correct.
> 
> In what do you base yourself ? i.e. is that written somewhere ?

Yes:

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/junos61/swconfig61-routing/html/protocols-overview4.html#1014007

See paragraph below "Alternate and Tiebreaker Preferences".

It's a more detailed modifier to the route preference.

So, looking from the "How the Active Route Is Determined" it is
influencing even actually very early in the best path decision process.
:-)


Regards,
Daniel


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