Order of preference of attributes in BGP The order of preference varies based on whether the attributes are applied for inbound updates or outbound updates. For inbound updates the order of preference is: route-map filter-list prefix-list, distribute-list For outbound updates the order of preference is: prefix-list, distribute-list filter-list route-map NOTE: The attributes prefix-list and distribute-list are mutually exclusive, and only one command (neighbor distribute-list or neighbor prefix-list) can be applied to each inbound or outbound direction for a particular neighbor. Scenario: We own the AS500 and advertising a network block of 192.0.2.0/24 and 180.179.179.0/16 to two different ISPs.