In response to my article about what would cause a directly connected route to be overridden, Matt Love (@showflogi) made a good observation: Good stuff - LPM rule can be a useful tool if you want to manipulate paths without mucking with metrics, esp if using multiple protocols — Matt Love (@thatmattlove) July 13, 2017 What Matt is saying is that longest prefix match (LPM) is a mechanism that can be used to steer traffic around the network in order to meet a technical or business need. This...
