BGP Weight is the first BGP attribute if we dive deep into BGP’s algorithm of best path selection followed by Local_Preference & aggregate (detailed in my first post in BGP section). Weight is vendor specific (Cisco proprietary) so it is found only on Cisco routers. Weight is always local on a router and it is not exchanged between BGP routers. The path with the highest weight is always preferred. The range of Weight is 0-65535 and it defaults to 0 always. i.e. The default weight for learned routes is 0 and the default weight for a locally originated route is 32768. We Read More …
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