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which route becomes active?

Your router is receiving four BGP route advertisements for the 192.168.100.0/24 network. By
default, which route becomes active?

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A.
Route A, which is learned through EBGP with an AS path of 8001 and a MED of 175.

B.
Route B, which is learned through IBGP with an AS path of 9900, a MED of 150, and an IGP
cost of 15.

C.
Route C, which is learned through IBGP with an AS path of 8001, a MED of 100, and an IGP
cost of 10

D.
Route D, which is learned through EBGP with an AS path of 9900 and a MED of 200.

Explanation:

7 Comments on “which route becomes active?

  1. DanyG says:

    I think it should be A as EBGP is always preferred:

    Some vendors have a preference (distance) of 20 for external BGP (EBGP) and a distance of 200 for internal BGP (IGBP). Junos OS uses the same value (170) for both EBGP and IBGP. However, this difference between vendors has no operational impact because Junos OS always prefers EBGP routes over IBGP routes.

    http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos13.3/topics/example/bgp-preference.html




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  2. jslaven says:

    Same AS path length.
    IGP over EGP over Imcomplete << route learned via IGP with a cost of 10, which is lower than a cost of 15

    If cost was the same for the IGP route, the MED would be the tie-breaker.

    Prefer the route with the lower origin code.
    Routes learned from an IGP have a lower origin code than those learned from an exterior gateway protocol (EGP), and both have lower origin codes than incomplete routes (routes whose origin is unknown).

    RFC 1771

    ORIGIN is a well-known mandatory attribute that defines the origin of the path information.
    0 IGP – Network Layer Reachability Information is interior to the originating AS
    1 EGP – Network Layer Reachability Information learned via EGP
    2 INCOMPLETE – Network Layer Reachability Information learned by some other means

    9.4 Originating BGP routes
    A BGP speaker may originate BGP routes by injecting routing information acquired by some other means (e.g. via an IGP) into BGP.




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  3. Ong says:

    C is correct
    AS path length is same
    Origin IGP prefer over EGP (only B and C left here)
    Med (can’t compare because different AS number)
    Both come from IBGP (Still B and C)
    IGP metric (C lower than B)




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