Re: [c-nsp] Best Practices to make one BGP link prefer for egrees and ingress traffic of one subnet

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Hi,

On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 02:50:55PM +0300, Muhammad Atif Jauhar via cisco-ns=
p wrote:
> However, for outbound traffic, we are presently relying on Policy-Based
> Routing (PBR) to steer traffic via the preferred uplink. While this
> approach is functional, we would prefer to achieve the desired path
> selection using BGP-native mechanisms, if possible, to ensure better
> scalability and operational simplicity.

There is none.  BGP does not care about packet source addresses.

(That said, you could trick around with VRFs, but it's questionable
if that will be more satisfactory in the end)

Symmetric traffic is an illusion, and trying to achieve that in
"the Internet" is time not spent well.

gert
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