BGP

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing information between autonomous systems on the Internet. Unlike OSPF and EIGRP, which are a link state, and distance vector routing protocols respectively, BGP is known as a path-vector routing protocol. It makes decisions based on paths, network policies and sets of rules configured by a network administrator.

BGP comes in two "flavors":

https://networklessons.com/bgp/introduction-to-bgp https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4271

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