Administrative Distance

• Routes can be learned via more than one protocol

  • Used to discriminate between them

• Route with lowest distance installed in forwarding table

• BGP defaults

  • Local routes originated on router: 200
  • iBGP routes: 200
  • eBGP routes: 20

• Does not influence the BGP path selection algorithm but influences whether BGP learned routes enter the forwarding table

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