Muhammad, To add to Gert's comment about symmetry... Can you please try and explain why you have that requirement?
I think this may be a case of reassessing the requirements before going into solution mode. Tnx, Arie On Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 5:36 AM Gert Doering via cisco-nsp < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 02:50:55PM +0300, Muhammad Atif Jauhar via > cisco-nsp wrote: > > However, for outbound traffic, we are presently relying on Policy-Based > > Routing (PBR) to steer traffic via the preferred uplink. While this > > approach is functional, we would prefer to achieve the desired path > > selection using BGP-native mechanisms, if possible, to ensure better > > scalability and operational simplicity. > > There is none. BGP does not care about packet source addresses. > > (That said, you could trick around with VRFs, but it's questionable > if that will be more satisfactory in the end) > > Symmetric traffic is an illusion, and trying to achieve that in > "the Internet" is time not spent well. > > gert > -- > "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you > feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never > doubted > it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." > Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh > Mistress > > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
