BGP Route Selection

BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) selects routes based on the following precedence (from highest to lowest):
  • Next-hop must be reachable.
  • higher weight
  • higher local preference
  • shortest length (shortest AS path)
  • lowest origin code
  • lowest Multi Exit Discriminator (MED)
  • route from external peer
  • lowest cost to next hop
  • lowest routerID
  • lowest PeerID