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Chapter 9: Routing Policy Configuration Guide
Preference
Preference is the value the IA routing process uses to order preference of routes from one
protocol or peer over another. Preference can be set using several different configuration
commands. Preference can be set based on one network interface over another, from one
protocol over another, or from one remote gateway over another. Preference may not be
used to control the selection of routes within an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP). This is
accomplished automatically by the protocol based on metric.
Preference may be used to select routes from the same Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)
learned from different peers or autonomous systems. Each route has only one preference
value associated with it, even though the preference can be set at many places using
configuration commands. The last or most specific preference value set for a route is the
value used. A preference value is an arbitrarily assigned value used to determine the
order of routes to the same destination in a single routing database. The active route is
chosen by the lowest preference value.
A default preference is assigned to each source from which the IA routing process receives
routes. Preference values range from 0 to 255, with the lowest number indicating the most
preferred route.
Table 2
summarizes the default preference values for routes learned in various ways. The
table lists the CLI commands that set preference and shows the types of routes to which
each CLI command applies. A default preference for each type of route is listed, and the
table notes preference precedence between protocols. The narrower the scope of the
statement, the higher precedence its preference value is given, but the smaller the set of
routes it affects.
Table 2. Default Preference Values
Preference
Direct connected networks
OSPF routes
Static routes from config
RIP routes
Point-to-point interface
Routes to interfaces that are
down
Aggregate/generate routes
OSPF AS external routes
BGP routes
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Defined by CLI Command
ip-router global set interface
ospf
ip add route
rip set preference
ip-router global set interface
down-preference
aggr-gen
ospf set ase-defaults preference
bgp set preference
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