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Import Policy Rewrites BGP Routes Before Best-Path Selection
A new educational series explains how BGP import policies can modify or reject routes before best-path selection runs. The code shows that import policy acts as a transformation function, altering attributes like local_pref and weight, or deleting routes entirely. This means the best-path algorithm only sees already-modified candidates, not raw peer announcements.
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The piece usefully demystifies a common misconception about BGP, but it's a tutorial, not breaking news—relevant mainly for network engineers and students.
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