From: John (jgarrison1@austin.rr.com)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2008 - 22:21:03 ART
The way I've read and used them. Local pref and weight are used on incoming
routes for outgoing traffic. AS-path and MED/metric are used on outgoing
routes to affect incoming traffic.. This is between AS's not in the same
AS. You can also use origin in a tie, but I forget which way to use it
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Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 5:50 PM
Subject: Best Practice with regards to configuring BGP policy
> Hello is there any best practice in place for setting BGP attributes like
> weight or local preference. I mean to say is Loc Pref is used to
> manipulate
> outbound traffic however can we set the local preference in a outbound
> route-map to an ibgp neighbour or does it have to be only inbound
> route-map
> for updates coming from ibgp neighbour. Is there a difference or
> preference
> for one over the other. Most examples I see are modifying it on a inbound
> route-map. Thanks
>
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