On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:22:49AM +0200, Alexander Bochmann wrote: > ...on Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:40:00PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > > > > -[bgpd.conf(5)- > > > 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 > > 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 > > Sounds kind of like what Cisco does with > the router ID, but that isn't really a > better name if it's not the priority to > be Cisco terminology-compatible :) >
Actually the router ID is also checked by OpenBSD but it is absolutly unusable for tossing routes in the right direction. The router ID of your neighbor is not under your control. A lot of people abuse the metric|MED for such a thing but that's a hack and not what the MED is designed for. -- :wq Claudio
