From: D. J. Jones (meganac@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Apr 05 2002 - 13:55:10 GMT-3
Either, but you need to be careful that you don't end up with suboptimal
routing.
Check out Halabi 2nd ed, pp 166-168.
dj
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lee Steele, Jr." <d.steele2@comcast.net>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:28 AM
Subject: BGP, MULTI_EXIT_DISC
> RFC 1771 states the following:
>
> a) If the local system is configured to take into account
> MULTI_EXIT_DISC, and the candidate routes differ in their
> MULTI_EXIT_DISC attribute, select the route that has the lowest value of
> the MULTI_EXIT_DISC attribute.
>
> In regards to the Cisco BGP command, bgp always-compare-med, which is in
> compliance with the RFC? Should a router compare MEDs only on paths
> within the same AS or should a comparison be made regardless of which AS
> the path originated from?
>
> Any examples of when you would use one over the other?
>
>
> David Lee Steele, Jr.
>
>
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