RE: BGP question

From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 22:48:51 GMT-3


   
At 7:08 PM -0700 8/2/02, Carlos A. Silva wrote:
>one thing that you might want to consider is that right
>after weight and local preference, the router will look at admin distance.
>that is: it will make a decision between preferring ebgp or ibgp.
>
>hth.

To be slightly picky, the BGP route selection algorithm isn't looking
at AD, but at the BGP ORIGIN attribute. The order of preference in
IOS is, from most preferred to least preferred,

           EXTERNAL
           CONFEDERATION EXTERNAL
           INTERNAL
           INCOMPLETE



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