Hi, On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 03:44:58PM -0500, Pete Templin wrote: > Gert Doering wrote: > > >On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 05:08:58PM +0200, Brian Turnbow wrote: > >>Setting the metric is not going to affect your BGP route selection. > > > >Read up on the BGP decision algorithm :-) > > "Your" can be singular or plural, specific or general. In this case, > specifically, it is not going to affect his BGP route selection unless > he enables 'always compare MED', since the paths come from two different > neighbor ASes.
The generic statement "setting the metric is not going to affect your
BGP route selection" is just not correct in this generality.
It will not do without knobs *if the neighbours are in different ASes*,
but otherwise, it will do so just fine.
gert
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