Foster one BGP peer in case of AS path equality

Keenan Tims ktims at gotroot.ca
Thu Mar 2 20:23:10 CET 2017


You can accomplish this by setting `med metric on` in your BGP  
protocols, and set bgp_med in the import policy to affect which route  
is selected when localpref and as-path-length are the same.

Keenan

Quoting Alarig Le Lay <alarig at swordarmor.fr>:

> Hi,
>
> I have an AS (204092) with two upstreams (174 and 198507). On some
> cases, the AS path is the same on both peers. I would like to use 198507
> over 174 only in this situation (so, no localpref).
>
> If I read the documentation correctly, I have take of « Prefer routes
> with lower internal distance to a boundary router. ». But I don’t see
> where I can set this internal distance.
>
> Does anybody have any clue about that?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> alarig


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