On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 02:19:27PM +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 12:49:06PM +0300, Alexander Shikov wrote: > > Hello! > > > > All of our BGP peers have 'prefer older' option enabled. > > But I noticed that best route is not the oldest one: > > Hi > > The option 'prefer older' is a bit misnomer, it does not mean the one > with the oldest timestamp, but it means 'prefer current best route'. > > So if route A was selected first, then route B was updated, and then route A > was updated again (so it has more recent timestamp), then route A is still > selected.
Thank you, Ondrej. -- Alexander Shikov Technical Staff, Digital Telecom IX Tel.: +380 44 201 14 07 Mob.: +380 50 410 30 57 http://dtel-ix.net/
