By looking at your question .. I am already seeing 254 stores and 254 3rd octets for the functions. a 10.x.x.x is enough for any business thats needs a large block of addresses. the 12.x.x.x is owned by at&t and 11.0.0.0 is owned by the Department of...
Your answer is already within your question. the AD value .. BGP assumes the external relationship will have a better route information about a conflicting route than the internal relationship
to get a iBGP relationship within the Same AS, you need a existing route already in the router. Also the iBGP neighbor never forwards a learned route to another iBGP neighbor unless it is a route reflector.
the AD value compares routes that are present in two different routing processes. The router will prefer eBGP to OSPF .. and prefer OSPF route to RIP etc. the iBGP AD value is very high (200) due to the design of BGP which was not meant to work as a ...
