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How can I set the Multi Exit Discriminator (MED) value on prefixes advertised to external BGP (eBGP) neighbors to match the Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) next hop metric?

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How can I set the Multi Exit Discriminator (MED) value on prefixes advertised to external BGP (eBGP) neighbors to match the Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) next hop metric?

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A. The set metric-type internal route-map configuration command causes BGP to advertise a MED that corresponds to the IGP metric associated with the next hop of the route. This command is available in Cisco IOS Software Release 10.3 and later. Refer to BGP Commands for more information.