At 12:49 PM 8/3/2004, neteng wrote:
>I talked with some others that know BGP better than I do and they thought it
>might be achievable using MED. Any ideas on this from the BGP experts?
>
> The multi-exit discriminator (MED) attribute is a hint to external
>neighbors about the preferred path into an AS when there are multiple entry
>points into the AS. A lower MED value is preferred over a higher MED value.
>The default value of the MED attribute is 0.
It is equally common, or more so, and safer in my opinion, to use
communities set by customers to influence the local pref used by the provider.
>""neteng"" wrote in message
>news:200407302323.i6UNNn3G022308@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> We have one connection (DS-3) to ISP#1 and one connection (DS-3) to ISP#2
>> for internet access. We have BGP in place and prefer all traffic to go
>> through ISP#1. Here's the problem, local DSL subscribers are on the ISP#2
>> network, so all of our home workers with DSL take the ISP#2 route instead
>of
>> the ISP#1 route. I can understand that because it's the local network that
>> it's the preferred route, but can I change it to route through ISP#1 or
>> would all that be internal to ISP#2's BGP network?
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