BGP path attributes

You can create policies that control routes, work with default routing, control specific and aggregated routes, and manipulate BGP path attributes.

Four categories of BGP path attributes exist:

Border routers that utilize built-in algorithms or manually configured polices to select paths use path attributes. BGP uses the following path attributes to control the path a BGP router chooses:

For more information about path attributes in BGP updates, see Path attributes.