BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL

• Determines routing loops

• Distance vector protocol
• No core
• For 2 BGP routers to communicate they must be on the same physical
network

• The metric used is

Autonomous system count
Type of link

• Initially full routing table made available to all routers.

Then updates are sent out incrementally

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 • BGP uses the following messages types
• Open

• Notification

• Keep alive

BGP A.S

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 ADMINISTRATIVE DISTANCE
• Used to represent the trust worthiness of the routing update source
• Higher the value, the less trusted the source.
Route source Default distance
Directly connected 0
Static 1
IGRP 100
RIP 120
OSPF 110
External BGP 20
Internal BGP 200
IS - IS 115
Unknown 255

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