BGP Weight Attribute

The BGP Weight attribute is a Cisco Proprietary attribute that influences a router how to reach a certain prefix. The difference between Local Preference and Weight is that the former is propagated within an AS and the latter is router locally significant. Weight can be used if there is one router connected to two or more AS's or just to just one with two or more eBGP peers. Now, lets configure weight and later use a route-map for more complex use of weight

"Weight is a Cisco Proprietary attribute for BGP that is "locally significant."Local Preference is a Well-known Discretionary attribute, Weight doesn't belong to any category.Default Weight for locally originated routes is 32768.Zero is the default for other routes.Weight is not propagated to other routers within the AS."