Local preference is only significant with your AS. Thus, if traffic destined for this
customer hit your AS, you would use local preference as the first piece of criteria
(outside of weight in cisco I believe) to determine which of your available next hops
into that customer you would post in your table. Outside of your AS, you generally
only dealing with the AS-PATH attribute for path selection.
Pete
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On 11/21/2000 at 3:38 AM Yee, Jason wrote:
>hi ,
>
>
>Anyone here knows which BGP path criteria takes precedence ? AS_PATH or
>local preference
>
>
>>From what I read it is local preference , but in actual fact it is not so ,
>why I said this is because I have a customer who prepends their prefixes
>many times then advertise them to us but on our side we set local preference
>to customers' routes to 90 which in fact will always come back to us if we
>do this but this is not happening
>
>Instead the prefixes go to another providers' link because their AS-PATH is
>shorter
>
>why is that so?
>
>
>Jason
>
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