Border Gateway Protocol

• A Routing Protocol used to exchange routing information between networks

  • exterior gateway protocol

• Described in RFC4271

  • RFC4276 gives an implementation report on BGP-4
  • RFC4277 describes operational experiences using BGP-4

• The Autonomous System is BGP’s fundamental operating unit

  • It is used to uniquely identify networks with a common routing policy

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