RE: Help with Local Preference

From: Paglia, John (USPC.PCT.Hopewell) (JPaglia@NA2.US.ML.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 17:14:54 GMT-3


Local pref propogates throughout an AS, so with all things equal it should
go thru r2.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter van Oene [SMTP:pvo@usermail.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 3:55 PM
> To: Cristian Henry H
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Help with Local Preference
>
> Pref should override this.
>
> At 04:14 PM 10/14/2002 -0300, Cristian Henry H wrote:
> >Externals first, then internals
> >
> >"D. Lee" wrote:
> > >
> > > R1 and R2 are IBGP peers within the same AS, and they are both EBGP
> peering
> > > with other AS.
> > >
> > > A route-map for local preference was created on R2 for a destination
> X.
> > >
> > > R1 learned a route to X via his EBGP peer, and it was assigned a local
> > > preference 100.
> > > R2 also learned a route to X via his EBGP peer, and it was assigned a
> > higher
> > > local-pref 200
> > > because of using the route-map. R2 passed the route with higher
> > local-pref to
> > > R1.
> > >
> > > >From the point of view of R1, the best path to X is through his EBGP
> > peer or
> > > R2??
> > >
> > > The router will prefer its external route or its internal route with
> higher
> > > local preference??
> > >
> > > Thanks for all the feedback ...
> >
> >--
> >Cristian E. Henry
> >REUNA
> >
> >E-mail: chenry@reuna.cl
> >Fono: 56-2-3370336



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