BIRD: route selection question

[Mikhail A. Grishin]

Alexander Ilin wrote, 30.03.2011 18:15:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 06:43:41PM +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 03:25:51PM +0400, Mikhail A. Grishin wrote:
>>> Hi, Ondrej
>>>
>>> Thank you for explanation.
>>>
>>> One more question: is it possible to add "bgp always-compare-med" option  
>>> in BIRD?
>> That would not be a problem. A question is under which circumstances such
>> comparison has some sense. Probably only if user overwrites all MEDs
>> on input to the AS.
> 
>  Hi Ondrej,
> 
> We are using it at Cisco Route Servers and some of customers using it. 
> I think it could be a good idea to have this option available, as some
> of our members want to have this feature enabled at our IXP.

And one more thing: in some of the previous answers you told about "time 
of route".
In route selection process inside the BIRD, at what step this criteria 
counted? Before 'router_id' or after?



> 
> Best regards,
> 
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> Alexander Y. Ilin
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