* jared r r spiegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-23 23:33]: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:10:42AM -0700, Michael Favinsky wrote: > > Does OpenBGPd have something similar to Cisco's weight attribute? I looked > > at the man page and it doesn't seem to mention weight. > > i have current snapshot from may17 and it's in there. > > could probably check the cvsweb for the manpage and see when > it got documented. > > -[bgpd.conf(5)- > prepend-self number > Prepend the local AS number times to the AS path. > > weight number > The weight is used to tip prefixes with equally long AS paths in > one or the other direction. A prefix is weighed at a very late > stage in the decision process. If number starts with a plus or > minus sign, the weight will be adjusted by adding or subtracting > number; otherwise it will be set to number. Weight is a local > non-transitive attribute and a bgpd-specific extension.
this is not the cisco-style weight. whihc maches our choice of the keyword here a bit problematic, if anyone has a better idea please mail me & claudio
