April 2014

April 13, 2014

BGP Key Concepts Part I

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) used for routing and reachability between inter-autonomous systems.  Autonomous system can be defined as an administrative unit with common policies for routing.  IGPs are used for routing and reachability within an autonomous system (as earlier defined; note different from concept of Areas in OSPF); typically within a customer network.  BGP is used on the internet and between ISPS. BGP comes in two forms IBGP and EBGP.  Internal BGP (IBGP) is […]