Hi Edison,

I just want to influence route on client without asking them to use local pref on their side to prefer the routes they receive. if i use weight, still they need to configure this on their side. I was thinking of using community to do this.

Thanks.

Jeff

Hi jeff

as Edison stated above the community cam be used in your case just like a route tag

it need to be combined with other BGP attributes to influence the path selection

if you have control on the other routers you may send summary from one router (AS) and more specific routes from the other router ( AS) in this case the more specific routes path will be preferred but this is only valid if you have control on the other routers

for example

client routr see from router1 10.1.0.0/22

and from router2 10.1.0.0.24 10.1.1.0/24   in this case all traffic going to 10.1.0.0/24 and 10.1.1.0/24 will use R2

if you dont have control on the other routers then you need to do some changes to the client router as described by edison above

good luck

if helpful Rate

Jeff,

You can use AS_PATH Prepend out of AS300 and the shortest AS path will be followed by traffic exiting AS100.

Regards

Edison.