BGP path selection

From: sakthi somnath (smollin2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Sep 29 2007 - 00:09:41 ART


Hi All,

Could someone please explain the criteria of selection
here. why is 1.1.1.1 not selected since it has a
higher Local preference?

N Next hop reachable

W - highest weight
L - Locally originated route
L - Local Preference Highest
A - Shortest AS Path

O - Origin code I> E > ?
M - Lowest MED
N - Neighbor type EBGP over IBGP
I - smallest IGP metric to Nexthop

R1(1.1.1.1)----
| |
| |
R2 -----|-----R4
| |
| R5--7.7.7.0
R3
|
|
7.7.7.0

- Only R1 and R2 are running IBGP, rest all run ebgp
- R2 does not peer with R5
- 7.7.7.0 is reachable via R3 as well as R5

Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, *
valid, > best, i - internal,r RIB-failure
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete

Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight
Path

* 7.7.7.0/24 161.108.0.5 0 4 3 i
* i 1.1.1.1 100 0 4 3 i
*> 132.108.4.3 0 2 3 i

Thanks,
Sakthi

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