The Cisco-owned network intelligence company traced the Microsoft outage to an external BGP change by ... we can see that a lot of routers were executing best path selection algorithm, which ...

BGP routes learned through MPLS will be preferred over OSPF/EIGRP on a particular router ... path or the 'set metric' command to raise the MED on the backup route. Check out Cisco's "Best Path ...

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) tells Internet traffic what route to take, and the BGP best-path selection algorithm determines the optimal routes to use for traffic forwarding. Then, the system ...