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BGP – Border Gateway Protocol

Member of: EGP & Path Vector groups

Primary Metric: Finite State Machine, with 6 States

1 Current Version: BGP Version 4

Convergence: Never Completely Converges

BGP has the ability to Hold Down routes that are not reliable (flapping)

Administrative Distance: 20

There is an iBGP (internal BGP) -- an IGP -- we are not discussing this here