What is BGP Weight Attribute? How to configure BGP Weight attribute?
A Cisco router can use the BGP weight, in that router to influence that one router’s choice of outbound route. To do so, when a router receives a BGP update, that router can set the weight either selectively, per route, using route map or for all routes learned competing routes, choosing the route with the bigger weight. Weight is cisco proprietary attribute, weight tells how to exit the autonomous system. Path with the highest weight is more desirable range is 0 through 65,535, by default 0 for learned routes, 32,768 for locally injected routes. weight is partial attribute, set on inbound route update.
A Cisco router can use the BGP weight, in that router to influence that one router’s choice of outbound route. To do so, when a router receives a BGP update, that router can set the weight either selectively, per route, using route map or for all routes learned competing routes, choosing the route with the bigger weight. Weight is cisco proprietary attribute, weight tells how to exit the autonomous system. Path with the highest weight is more desirable range is 0 through 65,535, by default 0 for learned routes, 32,768 for locally injected routes. weight is partial attribute, set on inbound route update.