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Local preference values can be applied to routes coming into a router. This can cause that router to make its outbound routing decisions based on those local preference values. Higher local preference values are preferred over lower local preference values.

An autonomous system path (that is, a listing of the autonomous systems that must be transited to reach a specific destination network) advertised to a neighbor can influence the BGP path selection of that neighbor. Specifically, BGP can make routing decisions based on the smallest number of autonomous systems that must be crossed to reach a destination network. Using a route map, you can prepend one or more additional instances of your local autonomous system to the AS_PATH ...

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