
Configuring IP Services
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BGP Features
BGP is an exterior gateway protocol primarily used to exchange network
reachability information with other BGP systems in other autonomous systems.
BGP exchanges routing information in the form of routing updates. An update
includes a network number, a list of autonomous systems that the routing
information has passed through (the AS path), and a list of other path attributes.
Figure 5-1 shows two autonomous systems: AS1 and AS2. Networks within AS1
and AS2 are connected by routers running an interior gateway protocol — in this
case, OSPF. AS1 and AS2 are connected by routers that run an exterior gateway
protocol — BGP — in addition to OSPF.
Figure 5-1. BGP Connecting Autonomous Systems Running OSPF
A BGP router employs a BGP speaker, which is an entity within the router that
transmits and receives BGP messages and acts upon them. BGP routers form
neighbor relationships with other BGP routers. BGP runs over the LAN and WAN
media/protocols that IP runs over — Ethernet, Token Ring, Sync, Wellfleet
Proprietary Sync, Frame Relay, SMDS, X25 (DDN, PDN, Pt-to-Pt), ATM PVC,
FDDI, T1, E1, HSSI, and PPP.
An autonomous system can include one or more BGP speakers that provide
external route information for the networks within the AS. An AS containing a
single BGP speaker with a single external BGP connection is a stub AS. The BGP
speaker is providing external route information for the networks contained within
its AS only.
OSPF
OSPF/BGP
OSPF
OSPF
OSPF/BGP
OSPF
BGP
Connection
AS1
AS2
OSPF
OSPF
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