RE: Sentance to remember BGP attribute list - N WLLA OMNI

From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Wed Nov 12 2008 - 13:55:26 ARST


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Next hop
Weight, largest preferred
Preference, largest preferred
Route by bgp on this router
As-path, shortest
Origin, I > E > ?
Med (metric) where lowest is preferred
External over internal (you'd be surprised how many times I see "best" here)
Closest igp neighbor
Oldest route (promotes bgp table stability)
Id, where lowest router id is preferred
Ip, where the lowest peer ip is preferred

-Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Dinesh Patel
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:29 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Sentance to remember BGP attribute list - N WLLA OMNI

Hi All,

Does anyone know a good sentance for remembering the BGP attribute descision
order?

next hop

weight

etc etc etc

We need to remember N WLLA OMNI (from Odom's book) somehow:

I know it but keep forgetting, so a good sentance for remembering it would
sort me out big time.

cheers

Dinesh

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