Actually the value is from 0 to 65535, but this does bring up a
question....If weight is used internally on a router to prefer one egress
path over another, and the attribute is never advertised to it's peers, then
why would Cisco say the following about the Weight attribute:
"The administrative weight is local to the router. A weight can be a number
from 0 to 65535. Any path that a Cisco router originates will have a default
weight of 32768; other paths have weight 0"
I guess I'm confused about this statement. If it's an "internal-only"
value, then how would a Cisco router ever use a value of 0? Are they giving
us information about other vendors products here, since as I understand it,
weight is a Cisco proprietary attribute?
Confused,
Kelly Cobean, CCNP,CCSA, ACSA, MCSE, MCP+I
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Just out of intrest, what does that have to do with BGP weights? BGP weights
are used to define the exit point from a router when you want to perfer one
path over another, cisco's default is 32768 but I think the weight can be
anything up to 4million...
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