On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 07:21:57AM +0200, Martin Barry wrote:
One more question: is it possible to add "bgp always-compare-med" option in BIRD?
That would not be a problem. A question is under which circumstances such comparison has some sense. Probably only if user overwrites all MEDs on input to the AS.
Manipulating MED is not common but also not unusual. It tends to be used in situations where manipulating LOCAL_PREF results in too many sub-optimal paths and letting the decision fall through to ROUTER_ID would not achieve the desired effect.
Yes, we implemented this feature in 1.3.1 (option 'med metric'). -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."