BGP Basics

~ Iain
  • Runs on top of TCP (Port 179)
  • TCP used for reliability
  • Updates are incremental and triggered – will only send an update when something changes and only sends what has changed.
  • Metric is huge. – tuned using BGP attributes.
  • Slowest Routing protocol on the planet to converge.

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