How to configure BGP MED Attribute

Hello Brian

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I can understand how this can be confusing. According to this Cisco documentation, MED is also known as the external metric of a route, because the lower the MED value, the more preferred a route becomes.

Similarly, the following BGP case studies documentation refers to MED as “the metric attribute” which is also known as “MED”.

The truth is that the original naming of the attribute was Inter AS Metric, and has since been changed to Multi Exit Discriminator, so this is the reason why the term Metric is still sometimes used.

However, to be absolutely correct, the term should be MED. I will let Rene know to clarify the wording to avoid confusion in the future.

I hope this has been helpful!

Laz