RE: Lab workbook Preferred route (Quiz #4 too!)

From: Kenneth Wygand (KWygand@customonline.com)
Date: Sun May 02 2004 - 12:40:42 GMT-3

Steve,
 
Your "pseudo-commands" are correct. Keep in mind these "set metric" commands must be tied to your external BGP sessions through "route-map" attributes on your "neighbor" statements. This will inherently provide redundancy because MED is a preferential variable. It will _prefer_ one route over the other, but will fall back to the route with the higher MED if the route with the lower MED is unavailable. The reason this is stated in the practice lab question is so that you don't _filter_ out the lesser-preferred route, leaving only the preferred route in the BGP table.
 
Your answer is correct. However, take a spin off of this question. Imagine the scenario also stated "You can only use a single "set metric" statement within the route-map tied to each external neighbor".
 
This is one of those pitfalls the lab can easily throw you into. I can immediately think of at least two ways this can be accomplished, one of which is unconventional. However, this is the thinking you need to pass the lab!!
 
If I don't receive the correct answer soon, I'll email it out. Or maybe I'll give a hint. For now, see whose BGP skills are sharp and write back! :)
 
Good luck!
Ken

        -----Original Message-----
        From: nobody@groupstudy.com on behalf of Stephen Skinner
        Sent: Sun 5/2/2004 9:18 AM
        To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
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        Subject: Lab workbook Preferred route
        
        

        Guys,
        
        have another question ,
        
        again i am trying to understand what the question is asking ..aswell as how
        to do it....
        
        
        i ahve learnt that question interpretation is 80% of the lab....if i don`t
        know what you are asking i don`t know what to do !!!!
        
        i have two routers ..router A and B ,they have external BGP peers router
        BGP1(router a) and BGP (Router b)
        
        these two router`s connect over FR to Router F point to multi
        
        bgp I betwen A,B ,F
        bgp E between A, BGP1 and B,BGP2
        
        i want to manipulate my external peers ( ie advertise out)
        
        the question is ....
        
        make Router B the preferred entry point to get to Router F
        make router A the prefered entry point to get to router A
        
        make sure there is redundency for bo th routes
        
        now i think that MED will do this on router B to get to F and MED on router
        A to get to itself
        
        but how about the redundency ...
        simply med again ...
        
        i.e router B
        med 50 router F
        med 100 router A
        
        router A
        med 100 router F
        med 50 router A
        
        is this right ???
        
        any help / config`s would be great
        
        many thanks
        
        steve
        
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