Solved: BGP Route Tagging on Redistribution

tsalt · ‎04-19-2007

When you redistribute routes between routing protocols you usually tag the routes redistributed using a route map. and then deny the tags on a redistibution back into the originating routing protocol.

I tried doing this with BGP and noticed that the TAGs were not sent across the EBGP connection.

Is there a way to get these TAGs sent across a BGP network or do we have to use them to set BGP communities etc?

Harold Ritter · ‎04-19-2007

The tag is not a BGP attribute, hence it not being carried in the BGP update.

The BGP community attribute is similar to the tag though and can be used to carry arbitrary information between BGP peers.

Hope this helps,

Harold Ritter
Sr Technical Leader
CCIE 4168 (R&S, SP)
harold@cisco.com
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Harold Ritter · ‎04-19-2007

The tag is not a BGP attribute, hence it not being carried in the BGP update.

The BGP community attribute is similar to the tag though and can be used to carry arbitrary information between BGP peers.

Hope this helps,

Harold Ritter
Sr Technical Leader
CCIE 4168 (R&S, SP)
harold@cisco.com
México móvil: +52 1 55 8312 4915
Cisco México
Paseo de la Reforma 222
Piso 19
Cuauhtémoc, Juárez
Ciudad de México, 06600
México

tsalt · ‎04-19-2007

Many thanks for your reply.