From: Kobus Van Rooyen (cciein2010@webmail.co.za)
Date: Sun May 07 2006 - 05:58:52 ART
Thank you all for assisting.
On Sat, 6 May 2006 21:18:46 -0400
"Scott Morris" <swm@emanon.com> wrote:
>Weight is local to your router. (Even setting this in an
>outbound
>route-map, there's no NLRI/BGP info available to transit
>this)
>
>Local Pref is local to your AS.
>
>MED (metric) is what is used for Inter-AS manipulations,
>although most
>providers ignore it anyway, leading us to do things like
>as-path prepend and
>other little tricks.
>
>If you are trying to influence other router's decisions,
>you need to work
>within the confines of information that BGP actually
>transmits in its
>updates.
>
>HTH,
>
>
>Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service
>Provider) #4713, JNCIE
>#153, CISSP, et al.
>CCSI/JNCI
>IPExpert CCIE Program Manager
>IPExpert Sr. Technical Instructor
>smorris@ipexpert.com
>http://www.ipexpert.com
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]
>On Behalf Of
>Kobus Van Rooyen
>Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 4:47 PM
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: BGP's weight and Local Preference usage
>
>I've change the BGP weight and local preference for routes
>learned form and
>ebgp peer through a route-map. The result I get are that
>only Local
>preference is changed and not weight. Assistance needed to
>understand why.
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