Posts Tagged ‘routing protocol’

BGP Path Attributes BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is an exterior gateway protocol that is used to exchange routing information between different autonomous systems (AS). BGP has many path attributes that are used to select the best path among multiple paths to a destination network. These attributes are added to the BGP update message and sent […]

•An OSPF router ID is a 32-bit value, represented as an IPv4 address. It is used to uniquely identify an OSPF router, and all OSPF packets include the router ID of the originating router. •Every router requires a router ID to participate in an OSPF domain. It can be defined by an administrator or automatically […]