Greetings,

Multi Exit Descriminator (MED) is a hint to external neighbors about
the preferred path into an AS. This is a dynamic way to influence another
AS on wich way to choose in order to reach a certain route given that we
have multiple entry points into that AS.

Regards.

Hugo Zamora
Reduno/UniNet

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, John Cappiello wrote:

> Excuse my ignorance, but what are MEDs?
> 
> Personally, I have setup something similar implementing my own form or 
> BGP in a linux solution behind an IP masqueraded firewall.  It's secure 
> (in that all your internal boxes are pretty well hidden) and the logic 
> involved is a complex and "intelligent" as you would like it to be.  
> Basically it involves just keeping track of it's own routing table 
> (quite large routing table <grin>).
> 
> 
> 
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> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:11:54 +0530
> Subject: BGP4
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> >Hi,
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> >I have multi-ISP connectivity, multiple exit  to internet.  I am
> >planning
> >to use BGP and MEDs as primary attribute to choose the best path.
> >
> >Is there any other suggestions ?
> >
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