On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:50:08PM -0400, G Douglas Davidson wrote: > I'm having a heck of a time with openbgp on openbsd 3.7. I am > attempting to set the localpref for a network and somehow it does not > appear to be happening. I've tried: > > network 192.168.1.0/24 set localpref 200 > > and > > match to any prefix 192.168.1.0/24 set localpref 200 > > and I can't seem to make things happen. If I do a: > > freeza# bgpctl show rib 192.168.1.0/24 > flags: * = Valid, > = Selected, I = via IBGP, A = Announced > origin: i = IGP, e = EGP, ? = Incomplete > > flags destination gateway lpref med aspath origin > AI*> 192.168.1.0/24 0.0.0.0 200 0 i > > It looks like the localpref has been set. But checking out the > update produced by the "dump updates out" command, I don't see the > localpref set. Also, looking at each of our two upstreams, the > localpref is still "100". I've successfully used the match statement > to a specific upstream to set a community value, so I'm just not sure > what the issue is with this. >
Localpref is a non transitive attribute. It will only be passed to IBGP peers. Localpref is not included in updates to your upstreams. You probably need to look at metric/med or perhaps even do some prepending. -- :wq Claudio
