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Updated 8/22/00 Juniper Networks, Inc. Copyright ? 2000 - Proprietary Confidential BGP-4 Training Prepared by Vinson Li Technical Support Manager BGP-4 Training Agenda Exterior Gateways Protocol Overview BGP4 Protocol Messages BGP4 Protocol Operation Important Path Attributes Route Selection and routing policy BGP Basic Configuration Router Reflector and confederation Case Studies Exterior Gateways Protocol Overview Overview Internet in the early 1980’s EGP and Its limitations BGP overview Autonomous Systems CIDR Basics Terminology Internet in the Early 80’s The Internet was a single network connected by small group of routers called “gateways.” All gateways shared routing information using the distance-vector protocol GGP (Gateway-to-Gateway Protocol). The gateways routing tables included entries and metrics of all the IP networks in the Internet. Internet in the Early 80’s (cont.) As the Internet expanded larger and larger, the single network model failed to work for the following reasons: routing overhead increased with the number of connected gateways routing table size increased poor fault isolation slow convergence software and hardware from different vendors made the network maintenance and troubleshooting tasks very difficult gateways were owned by different organization and managed by different people which made the deployment of new software and hardware very difficult Internet in the Early 80’s (cont.) The solution was to divide the Internet into a set of autonomous systems(AS) and let each autonomous system manages its own set of gateways. One of the ASs, called the “core” AS, played the role of the Internet backbone. The other ASs called “stub” ASs were connected to the core AS to obtain the routing information of the Internet. Stub ASs needed to use the core AS to communicate with each other. The gateways of the stub ASs connecting to the core AS using specialized routers called “exterior gateways”. Internet in the Early 80’s (cont.) The EGP (