[j-nsp] Fwd: confused about "Not Best in its group"

[Min]

somehow it didn't go through at first try.

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From: Min <smartsuites at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 1:26 AM
Subject: confused about "Not Best in its group"
To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net


Sometime BGP inactive route shows inactive reason as "Not Best in its
group". However, if configured "protocols bgp path-selection
always-compare-med", inactive reason will be more specific, like "IGP
metric", "Interior > Exterior > Exterior via Interior". Really
confused how "always-compare-med" would cause this ( specific inactive
reason rather than "Not Best in its group" ) while best path selection
no change. Can someone explain this? Thanks.