August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 44m
English
This chapter covers the following key topics:
How BGP works— An overview of how the Border Gateway Protocol (Version 4) operates, including its message header format, and how and what it negotiates with neighboring routers. We'll cover the formats and purposes of BGP's four main message types—OPEN, NOTIFICATION, KEEPALIVE, and UPDATE.
Multiprotocol extensions to BGP-4— We'll discuss Multiprotocol BGP, which was originally designed expressly for interdomain multicasting but can accommodate other protocols as well.
Capabilities Negotiation with BGP-4— BGP Capabilities Negotiation provides a mechanism to cleanly introduce new features to BGP. I'll discuss its operation and then detail some of ...
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