Setting MED (?) for a specific BGP route
Michal Ludvig
mludvig at logix.net.nz
Tue Apr 3 00:58:20 CEST 2012
On 04/03/2012 10:38 AM, Michal Ludvig wrote:
> Is there any way to autogenerate MED from IGP? For instance in my case
> I've got:
> if source = RTS_OSPF then {
> bgp_med = 200;
> }
>
> That works for now with this hardcoded value. However we're going to
> add one more POP with OSPF+BGP and then I want the MED to reflect the
> internal distance to the given subnet.
>
> Like this:
> [POP1] --- [POP2] --- [POP3]
>
> The prefix local to POP1 should be announced from all POPs to our BGP
> upstream with the lowest MED from POP1, higher from POP2 and the
> highest MED from POP3. Can I somehow do that automatically?
Just found one way:
if source = RTS_OSPF_EXT2 then {
bgp_med = ospf_metric1;
}
It seems to work but is it a good idea?
Thx
Michal
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