Ah. I didn't realize the "show" was before the route-map was applied. I was trying to make sure everything was setup correctly on our side before contacting the other ASN.
They may very well have something that zero's the metric. ---- Matthew Huff | One Manhattanville Rd OTA Management LLC | Purchase, NY 10577 http://www.ox.com | Phone: 914-460-4039 aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-460-4139 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Rathlev [mailto:pe...@rathlev.dk] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:57 PM To: Matthew Huff Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: RE: [c-nsp] BGP Med and outbound metric On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 12:51 -0400, Matthew Huff wrote: > rtr-feed2 is on our side. What I'm attempting to do is to pref > rtr-feed1 over rtr-feed2 (hence the 200 metric). > > I'm also seeing the metric of 0 on the "show ip bgp neighbor > 10.151.0.82 advertised-routes". Well, as I tried writing: On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:49 +0200, Peter Rathlev wrote: > You can only see the results of an outbound route-map on the other side. > The metric you see on your side is the one you box knows about. This is also true when showing "advertised-routes", which just shows you the routes from your own local table that being sent to the neighbor, but before the route-map has had a chance to change anything. AFAIK the only way of seeing what they receive is on their side. > Are you sure they would accept the MED setting? It's quite normal to > clear this inbound to enforce some standard policy. This is also still relevant. Do you have an agreement with them on this? Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/