BGP best path

From: Joe Jia (ellenjjl@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 18:05:45 GMT-3


   
Hi,

Could someone please help me to explain the following, why the bgp chooses the
iBGP as the best one?

Why doesn't it choose the external one as the best one?

P1R3>show ip bgp

   Network Next Hop Metric Local
Prof Weight Path

* >i 172.17.11.0/24 10.33.255.2 0 100
0 (65535) i

* 10.34.255.1 0
100 0 (65535) i

* 172.17.255.1 0
0 1000 i

P1R3> show ip bgp 172.17.11.0

BGP routing table entry for 172.17.11.0/24, version 29

Paths: (3 available, best#1, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)

          Advertised to non peer-group peers:

          10.34.255.1 172.17.255.1

          (65535)

             10.33.255.2 (metric 65) from 10.33.255.2 (10.33.255.2)

                        Origin IGP , metric 0, localpref 100, valid, internal,
best

           (65535)

             10.34.255.1 (metric 65) from 10.34.255.1 (172.17.11.1)

                        Origin IGP , metric 0, localpref 100, valid,
confed-external

           1000

             172.17.255.1 (metric 65) from 172.17.255.1 (172.17.255.1)

                        Origin IGP , metric 0, localpref 100, valid, external



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