Answers to Chapter 8 Review Questions
| 1: | What is an EGP? |
| A1: | An EGP is an Exterior Gateway Protocol, which is a protocol designed to carry routing information between ASs. BGP is an EGP. |
| 2: | What prevents iBGP from being an effective IGP? |
| A2: | iBGP cannot determine if a path within an AS is a loop because the AS path remains the same within the AS. |
| 3: | Where will routes learned from an eBGP peer be propagated? |
| A3: | To all peers, iBGP and eBGP. |
| 4: | Why shouldn't you redistribute BGP routes into an IGP? |
| A4: | Because BGP isn't an effective IGP, and redistributing iBGP routes into an IGP can cause routing loops. |
| 5: | What protocol do all BGP packets ride on top of? |
| A5: | TCP. |
| 6: | If a neighbor relationship between two BGP peers constantly cycles through the Idle, Active, ... |
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