BGP confederation metric rule

From: Pierre-Alex (pierreg@planetkc.com)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 07:39:58 GMT-3


BGP metric rules says to prefer BGP confed-external routes over IBGP routes.
I am getting the contrary.

Can anyone put me back on track?

Thank you,
Pierre-Alex

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R2>sh ip bgp 172.16.151.0
BGP routing table entry for 172.16.151.0/24, version 9
Paths: (2 available, best #1, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
  Advertised to non peer-group peers:
  10.5.2.1
  (65030)
    10.5.1.1 (metric 2185984) from 172.16.1.11 (1.1.1.1)
      Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, internal, best <----- the
IBGP route was chosen. Violation of the rule!
  (65030)
    10.5.1.1 (metric 2185984) from 10.5.2.1 (5.5.5.5)
      Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, confed-external <-----
this should have been chosen

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