Re: BGP Traffic Engineering question

[Joe Maimon <jmaimon () ttec com>]

Aaron Hopkins wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Drew Weaver wrote:
>
> > If you have several transit providers connected to your network and much
> > of your traffic is generally directed by the "BGP tiebreaker" (i.e.
> > lowest
> > IP address) is there a way, without specifying on a per-prefix basis to
> > prefer the "tie breaker winner" slightly less often?
>
> Assuming Cisco, set "bgp always-compare-med", "bgp deterministic-med", and
> in your route-map in, "set origin igp" and "set metric X". You can then
> vary X as you see fit as an alternate tie-breaker. As long as you never set
> the metric the same on two different paths for the same prefix, it'll never
> fall back to router-id.
>
> Depending on the transit provider, you can often match bgp communities to
> determine which are customer routes or the region where the announcement
> was
> heard, which you can then use as a tie-breaker when setting the metric.
> Barring that, as-path access-lists matching specific path fragments can do
> the same thing, but seems to take more work to maintain as relationships
> change over time.
>
> -- Aaron

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