August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 44m
English
This chapter covers the following key topics:
Building peer sessions— A walk-through of the negotiation process between BGP and its neighbors.
Sources of routing updates— The source and method by which routes are injected into BGP have implications for the accuracy and stability of routing information.
Overlapping protocols: backdoors— When alternative routes into and out of a network are offered by overlapping protocols, a method of ranking them by preference is available.
The routing process simplified— The decision model by which BGP receives, filters, selects for usage, and advertises routes, as a continuous process.
Controlling BGP routes— At the core of BGP is a collection of attributes that ...
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