Explore The BGP Path Selection Attributes [Explained with Labs]

BGP Attributes Categories

There are four categories of BGP attributes (CiscoPress):

• Well-known mandatory: Must be recognized by all BGP routers, present in all BGP updates, and passed on to other BGP routers. For example, AS path, origin, and next hop.
  
• Well-known discretionary: Must be recognized by all BGP routers and passed on to other BGP routers but need not be present in an update, for example, local preference.
  
• Optional transitive: Might or might not be recognized by a BGP router but is passed on to other BGP routers. If not recognized, it is marked as partial, for example, aggregator, or community.
  
• Optional nontransitive: Might or might not be recognized by a BGP router and is not passed on to other routers, for example, Multi-Exit Discriminator (MED), originator ID.
  

BGP Attributes Explained with configuration examples [Labs]

– Next Hop

– AS PATH

– ORIGIN

– Local Preference

Order of BGP Path Attributes