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Cisco: BGP path selection for inbound traffic

By On December 10, 2008 · 3 Comments

In some previous post we saw how we can manipulate BGP paths using attributes for outgoing traffic. Today we will see how to use another BGP attribute, but this time for manipulating inbound traffic. First I would like to ask you to have a look into the topology file and also to check the config files (if you have a basic idea about how BGP is configured that you don’t need the config files).

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Cisco: BGP path selection for outgoing traffic

By On December 1, 2008 · 2 Comments

Before going further on, please download the topology and the initial configuration files and have a close look into them (mostly into topology drawing). Also, this tutorial is addressed to people that know what is BGP and how to do a basic configuration for peering establishing.

For modifying the BGP automate selection of the best path, we have to modify some of BGP attributes from the table below:
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