BGP Attribute : Multi-Exit Discriminator or Known as MED
MED attribute is exchanged between ASs, but a MED attribute that comes into an AS does not leave the AS. When an update enters the AS with a certain MED value, that value is used for decision making within the AS. When BGP sends that update to another AS, the MED is reset to 0.
MED is called as optional non-transtive attribute and the router compares MED attributes for paths from external neighbors that are in the same AS. Hope you got the exact point of the MED use in the BGP enabled network. Lets take an topology and the configuration part of the MED. The topology and the IP addresses showing in this example is taken only for the demo purposes and have no relevance with any of the live or the enterprise network.
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| Fig 1.1- BGP Attribute- MED |

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