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 Me
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 s
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
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