Re: BGP Bestpath selection -- confused with attributes

From: Jeff Mullan (jmullan78@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2007 - 23:36:32 ART


Dennis,
If you have multiple exit points from your AS, and you are getting same
inbound routes on these, you may want to use Local Pref. Incase you have
multiple exit points out of your AS on the same router, you can use weight.
Thanks,
-JM

On 3/9/07, dennis lin <74dennis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Every friend in GS
>
> I am having a small question that I am confused.
>
> For the BGP bestpath selection, weight and local-preference are used to
> affect how traffic leaves AS, but how can I choose one of them . As I konw
> ,
> Weight is only local to the router, but what does it really mean? In what
> scenario I have to use local-preference instead of weight to affect
> traffic
> leaves AS ? Any examples? Appreciated with that.
>
> Dennis
>
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