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BGP

The Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP)[9] is a routing protocol, as defined in RFC 1773[20]. BGP is used to communicate routing information between different providers on the Internet and for this reason reflects the path that traffic will take from a given point on the Internet.



 

Horms
2000-12-02