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another router speaking BGP (called a peering session), it will start out like
the following:
router BGP 14290
neighbor 204.118.35.166 remote-as 802
<the rest is omitted>
This communication starts out by saying “I would like to connect to
ASN (autonomous system number) 14290 using BGP.” The list of com-
mands that would initiate the routing table transfer is omitted.
If a node wishes to connect with BGP peer node, the node will open a
connection on TCP port 179, which is the default port. A significant
amount of information is transferred, such as the identification numbers,
authentication ...