Border Gateway Protocol
Abstract
In this chapter, you will learn about the BGP and the essential role it plays on the Internet. With BGP, routing information is circulated outside the AS and to all routing domains. We’ll see how a simple routing policy change can make a destination unreachable.
You will learn about the differences between the Internet BGP (IBGP) and the Exterior Gateway Protocol (EBGP), and why both are needed. We’ll also look at BGP attributes and message formats.
Keywords
BGP; IDRP; NLRI; LAN networks; VPNs; IGP; IDRP
In this chapter, you will learn about the BGP and the essential role it plays on the Internet. With BGP, routing information is circulated outside the AS and to all routing domains. We’ll ...
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