BGP – Border Gateway Protocol

Member of: EGP & Path Vector groups

Primary Metric: Finite State Machine, with 6 States

1 Cuurent Version: BGP Version 4

Convergence: Never Completly Converges

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

Administrative Distance: 20

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