BGP, should be simple

you use weight when you want manipulate with outgoing traffic from your local network, and weight attribute is use when you have one router with two exit (single home, dual single home design)

in your case i would like to use MED between your routers (A,B) and A1, B and set metric for network from router C. in that way you will "suggest" the A1 or B1 router which path you want to use when traffic from router C is destinated to your local network and if all atributes are by default less MED (less metric) will win.

if you want traffic originate from router C goes A1->A set MED betweenB-> B1 to some random value. with that this path will be worse because of higher metric (higher is worst in this case) and A-A1 will have default MED 0 and that is better path (routers B1 will know that router A1 is the next hop if he will have some traffic for your local network)

and use route-map ;)

I appreciate the time you took to lay this out. Reading further on MED it certainly appears to do what I want although it makes my small brain hurt a bit. The first attempt I've put together, on Router B, is:

router bgp 101 ... neighbor xxx.xxx.xxx.153 route-map MED-up in ... access-list 11 remark route map for MED access-list 11 permit any ... ! route-map MED-up permit 10 match ip address 11 set metric 11

The "in" or "out" on the neighbor command had me stymied; fortunately it is not yet fully production so I can afford to play with it.

Again, thank you.

I am very far from a BGP expert however to ensure a preferred return path from the Internet in the past I have used as-path prepend.

I found it *simple to understand* and to implement.

If we are AS 7 and some remote internet AS 8 has two potential bgp paths available

At the remote end it might look like this.

A - 8 27 47 67 87 7 B - 8 17 37 57 77 97 7 A will be preferred since it is shorter.

By using AS path-prepend you can make one of the paths artificially longer

router bgp 7 ... neighbour A route-map prepend out route map X set as-path prepend 7 7 7

The two paths now look like this at the remote end.

A - 8 27 47 67 87 7 7 7 7 B - 8 17 37 57 77 97 7 B is now preferred

Perhaps this might be suitable for your needs? I think it very easy to follow.

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Following up:

Once I switched my innie to an outie, it works just fine.

thats right, you must use "out" when use MED, that means that the metric will be use for all incoming traffic (in your case for route in acl 11, any route in your case )

in andout direction are little confused it ist not logical to me...