BGP Route Storage and Advertisement
The job of the BGP is to facilitate the exchange of route information between BGP devices so that each router can determine efficient routes to each of the networks on an IP internetwork. This means that descriptions of routes are the key data that BGP devices work with. Every BGP speaker is responsible for managing route descriptions according to specific guidelines established in the BGP standards.
BGP Route Information Management Functions
Conceptually, the overall activity of route information management can be considered to encompass four main tasks:
Route Storage Each BGP stores information about how to reach networks in a set of special databases. It also uses databases to hold routing information received ...
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