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Inbound BGP Route Filters

BGP routes can be filtered, or redistributed by AS number or AS path regular expression, or both.

BGP stores rejected routes in the routing table with a negative preference. A negative preference prevents a route from becoming active and prevents it from being installed in the forwarding table or being redistributed to other protocols. This behavior eliminates the need to break and re-establish a session upon reconfiguration if importation policy is changed.

When you import from BGP you can add or modify the local preference, rank and nexthop. The local preference parameter assigns a BGP local preference to the imported route. The local preference is a 32-bit unsigned value, with larger values preferred. This is the preferred way to bias a routing subsystem preference for BGP routes.