'prefer older' does not work?

[Alexander Shikov]

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 02:19:27PM +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 12:49:06PM +0300, Alexander Shikov wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > All of our BGP peers have 'prefer older' option enabled. 
> > But I noticed that best route is not the oldest one:
> 
> Hi
> 
> The option 'prefer older' is a bit misnomer, it does not mean the one
> with the oldest timestamp, but it means 'prefer current best route'.
> 
> So if route A was selected first, then route B was updated, and then route A
> was updated again (so it has more recent timestamp), then route A is still
> selected.

Thank you, Ondrej.

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