What is BGP and How it Works?

Border Gateway Protocol

BGP is a totally different protocol except for

IGPs like EIGRP and OSPF. So right now you
please save your knowledge of IGP or
switching into your mind memory and locked it
for a time being.
 IGPs work on single AS (autonomous
system) but it’s not too scalable for the wide
networks. For biggest network BGP is here.
 IGP is always looking for the shortest path to
reach a destination. But in BGP we can
manipulate the path with reachability and
BGP do the same on the INTERNET.
 BGP is a layer 7 protocol
 BGP is Classless protocol
 BGP support VLSMBGP use TCP protocol
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 BGP is more secure than other protocols.
 BGP supports manual summarization.
 BGP is a reliable protocol.
 BGP is a highly scalable protocol.
Uses of BGP

BGP exchange Routes between Autonomous

Systems or different Autonomous Systems.
Otherwise, for intercommunication, we are
using redistribution. Redistribution having some
issues like suboptimal routing and loop create
in routing so come out for this problem we are
using BGP. BGP is more flexible and
beneficial.

BGP having two types of way of neighboring

1. IBGP Internal BGP peer (IBGP)

2. EBGP External BGP peer (EBGP)
IBGP: when you are forming BGP neighbor
between the same Autonomous System.

EBGP: when you are forming BGP neighbor

between different Autonomous System.