
Configuring IP Exterior Gateway Protocols (BGP and EGP)
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Stub and Multihomed Autonomous Systems
An autonomous system can include one or more BGP speakers that establish
peer-to-peer sessions with BGP speakers in other autonomous systems to provide
external route information for the networks within the AS. An AS containing
multiple BGP speakers is considered to be a multihomed AS. An AS containing a
single BGP speaker that establishes a peer-to-peer session with a single external
BGP speaker is a stub AS. The BGP speaker provides external route information
only for the networks contained within its own AS.
Interior BGP Routing
Nortel Networks implements Interior BGP (IBGP) intra-AS routing. Under IBGP,
each router in the AS runs an interior gateway protocol (IGP), such as OSPF, for
internal routing updates and also maintains an IBGP connection to each BGP
border router. The IBGP information, along with the IGP route to the originating
BGP border router, determines the next hop to use for external networks.
The IGP carries no BGP information. Each router uses IBGP exclusively to
determine reachability to external networks. When an IBGP update for a network
is received, it can be passed on to IP for inclusion in the routing table only if a
viable IGP route to the correct border gateway is available.
An AS with more than one BGP speaker can use IBGP to provide a transit service
for networks outside the AS. An AS that provides such a service for BGP speakers
is known as a transit AS (see Figure 1-3
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