- eBGP implementation can be very simple.

External interfaces are typically use d in order to learn more quickly when the physical interface goes down - iBGP speakers almost always use the system interface to establish their TCP s ession. A system interface provides much greater stability than a physical inter face - The question may arise as to why you would need BGP within an AS since the ent ire purpose of BGP is to propagate routing information between different ASes :: : - all iBGP routers must have a consistent view of the BGP routes reachable thro ugh external ASes (connected to two ISP ie) - BGP attribute :origin,next-hop,As-path

You should use BGP in the following cases: You are an ISP and need to pass client traffic f rom one AS to another AS. You need to multi-home to several ISPs because of company requirements. Traffic flow between your company and other companies must be carefully managed and controlled. You should not use BGP in the following cases: You do not need to have more than one connection to the Internet, or, in the eve nt of multiple connections, you do not care about optimizing the route to destinati ons in other ASes. The company network engineers do not understand how BGP works. The routers and physical links to the ISP cannot handle the load of BGP traffic