Perspectives on the Core Eight Best-Path Steps

Some of the BGP best-path steps purposefully give the engineer a tool for influencing the choice of best path, whereas other steps have a different purpose, often simply being a side effect of some BGP feature. So, when an engineer starts building a BGP implementation plan, only a subset of the core eight BGP best-path steps need be considered, as follows:

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Image Weight (Step 1)

Image Local_Pref (Step 2)

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