Just wanted to commend Brian on an excellent explanation.
Whenever you start studying BGP (and advanced interior routing), and
things start getting confused, it's a good idea always to stop and
think:
am I dealing with TRAFFIC flow or ROUTING UPDATE flow?
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Jennifer
BGP Local Pref is used to control outbound traffic. MED/Metric is used to
control inbound traffic. Why is it that you do an inbound route map (vs
outbound) when setting local pref and an outbound route map (vs. inbound)
when setting MED? It seems opposite.
- Jennifer Mellone
Because you aren't controlling the traffic, you are controlling the
prefixes that you are recieving or announcing.
andy
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Jennifer Mellone wrote:
BGP Local Pref is used to control outbound traffic. MED/Metric is used to
control inbound traffic. Why is it that you do an
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Jennifer Mellone wrote:
BGP Local Pref is used to control outbound traffic. MED/Metric is used to
control inbound traffic. Why is it that you do an inbound route map (vs
outbound) when setting local pref and an outbound route map (vs. inbound)
when setting MED? It
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