I am having an issue where the metrics in my OSPF-->BGP redistribution commands to not seem to be honored. I have a cascading metric for each site redistributing default routes, but when received, it's always default eBGP 20.
Site 3:
router ospf
network 192.168.200.0 0.0.0.3 area 0 (<-- Transit between my device and client's)
network 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 area 0
redistribute bgp subnets
!
router bgp 65xxx
neighbor xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
remote-as xxxx
no shutdown
exit
address-family ipv4
network 192.168.200.0 mask 255.255.255.252
redistribute ospf metric 200 (<---This site is a last resort, hence the high metric)
redistribute static metric 200
neighbor xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
soft-reconfiguration inbound
no shutdown
exit
exit
What I am receiving at remote sites:
B | 0.0.0.0/0 [20/0/0] (xxxx) via xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, eth 0/1 |
Goal is to redistribute successfully with a weight that is received at all other remote sites. And yes, every site is redistributing its default route that is received (no statically set routes) via my client's OSPF...
20 is the administrative distance for eBGP, not its metric. It will be used to choose between eBGP routes and those from another routing protocol. It is rarely a good idea to change administrative distance, but it can be done.
If you used iBGP with the remote sites having the same AS, you could use local-preference.
eBGP won't look at MED or metric by default from a different origin AS. Cisco has a knob to allow this called "always-compare-med" but I don't know the Adtran equivalent if one exists.
For eBGP you can use a route-map and add prepends to de-preference the routes.
You could also set a community and then map that community to adjust the metric on the other end.
If the remote site is comparing the default from eBGP and that from another routing protocol, you'll probably need to use communities.
Be careful redistributing defaults, it's easy to get undesired behavior. A big picture of the problem you're trying to solve with this configuration might help. There may be a better way to accomplish the end goal.